{"id":407913,"date":"2026-07-22T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:02:21","slug":"costco-customers-urged-to-check-desert-willow-plants-for-invasive-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407913\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Customers Urged To Check Desert Willow Plants For Invasive Pests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The affected plants may contain the broad-headed sharpshooter, which is not established in California, or the glassy-winged sharpshooter, which is already present in the state. Officials said both insects can spread Pierce&#8217;s disease, a plant disease that has caused millions of dollars in losses to California&#8217;s wine grape industry and threatens vineyards, orchards, nurseries and home gardens. <\/p>\n<p>The plants were distributed to Costco warehouses throughout California, including seven locations in San Diego County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The affected plants may contain the broad-headed sharpshooter, which is not established in California, or the glassy-winged sharpshooter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-407913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}