In reality, phylloxera is no joke (neither is Anthrax, or even Poison, for that matter). It’s one of those words you come across on your wine journey, and although it does not really have ...

After much debate the insects were identified as an American aphid-like bug called phylloxera. In the U.S., though, they only bothered the leaves of grape vines, where they were nowhere to be ...

The vineyard pest Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) on a vine root. (Kevin Powell/Sugar Research Australia Limited) Walla Walla, Washington, has a louse in its house. Now the Washington ...

Phylloxera is the aphid-like insect that nearly destroyed the European wine industry in the late 1800s. It is a threat most of the world’s top wine-growing regions have faced.

There are three ways of destroying the phylloxera, but, according to M. Balbiani, Professor of the College of France, not one of them can be relied upon as thoroughly efficacious. View Full Articl ...

Phylloxera were present at four sites where the declining grapevines were planted on the phylloxera-resistant rootstocks 101-14 Mgt. and Teleki 5C. The researchers observed that shoot growth was ...

The destructive louse phylloxera, an insect that devours grapevine roots, has now been found in every major New Zealand viticultural area. Last week, Te Kairanga Wines in Martinborough confirmed an ...

Pecan leaf phylloxera, Phylloxera notabilis, is a tiny aphid-like insect that feeds on foliage of pecan trees. You can only see the insects under a microscope because they are so tiny.

It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word ...

It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word ...

It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word ...