What does «filoxera» mean in Spanish?
- A vine pest caused by hemiptera insects.
- Insects that produce the pest of the same name. They are similar to aphids, but yellowish and smaller (between 0.3 and 1.4 mm). They reproduce very rapidly in vineyards. They are native to North America. They attack leaves and root filaments. Its scientific name: Dactylosphaera vitifoliae. This insect strongly affected Europe and the rest of the world at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. This pest forced the replanting of almost all European vineyards using an American vine rootstock resistant to it.
- Drunkenness.