Boll weevils plagued the cotton industry throughout much of the Cotton Belt for almost a century before entomologists and producers executed one of the most successful pest eradication programs in the ...

Oct. 22—HARLINGEN — Drive through the Valley, and you can spot them everywhere, the lime green bottles used to trap cotton growers' biggest nemesis, the boll weevil. A small army of inspectors in ...

Now that the boll-weevil army, which crossed the Rio Grande some twenty years ago, has reached the walls of the North Carolina mountains, and during its long march has changed the economic life of the ...

Boll weevil eradication produces significant returns to cotton growers. This impact has been well documented in cotton-growing states that have eradicated the weevil, but the effect in Texas is just ...

Since its introduction to the U.S. in 1892, the boll weevil inflicted devastating damage to cotton producers and rural economies throughout the first half of the 20th century. Their presence ...