The growing movement of goods and people worldwide increases the risk that new pests will invade vineyards in North America and around the world. “Invasive and new pests certainly pose a serious economic threat to the B.C. grape and wine industry due to increased travel, population growth, and rapid movement of goods and people,” Dr. Tom Lowery, a research scientist at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, said at last summer’s B.C. Wine Institute viticulture conference in Penticton. An invasive species is typically one introduced to a region and, because of the lack of natural predators […]