A SPECIAL REPORT: PESTS

WINE COUNTY? A pest-born catastrophe may have changed the course of county history. . . . The first American settlement in the region, Anaheim, was created for wine making, and by 1880 about 5 million grapevines were flourishing in and near the town. But by the end of the decade, all the vines were dead, victims of bacteria carried by tiny leafhoppers. . . . The Valencia orange took over, and eventually the county was named after it. As a consolation prize, the grapevine blight was named after Anaheim.