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 ...

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 w… ...

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.

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.

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 ...

American Bugs Almost Wiped Out France’s Wine Industry When the Great French Wine Blight hit in the mid 1800s, the culprit turned out to be a pest from the New World that would forever alter wine ...

DESTROYING THE PHYLLOXERA. Share full article. Dec. 6, 1884. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 6, 1884, Page 3 Buy Reprints.

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 ...

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.