Thank you Hilary for posting Phylloxera. Some one shot me down when I suggested it from afar.
Gil Hilary Wright wrote: > The phylloxera louse (dactylasphaera vitifoliae) arrived in France from > America in 1863, where it destroyed 6.2 million acres of vines and spread > rapidly throughout Europe, threatening the very existence of the wine > industry. Snip
