'Bugs Bunny Gang' Leaves French Wine Producers Hopping Mad
'Bugs Bunny Gang' Leaves French Wine Producers Hopping Mad
Oct 4, 2010 6
The worst plague of rabbits in recent memory crippled the wine industry in France's Bordeaux region as the harvest neared the end of its first week Monday.
Harvest began Tuesday last week in the exclusive Medoc area of southwestern France, and wine makers are reporting massive losses in their grape crops.
"More than 15 percent of our harvest has been swallowed up by the Bugs Bunny gang," Bruno Von der Heyden of the five-century-old Chateau de Malleret wrote in a blog. A neighbor of Von der Heyden said she caught 500 of the long-eared munchers on her land alone.
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