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 ...

News about a machine to fight the dreaded boll weevil is spreading fast through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past ...

In the deep South last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental ...

The boll weevil is a small beetle that lays eggs in developing cotton buds or bolls. The larvae feed on their host plant for up to two weeks before pupating. Several days later, adult boll weevils ...

Declaring war The boll weevil is a small beetle that lays eggs in developing cotton buds or bolls. The larvae feed on their host plant for up to two weeks before pupating. Several days later, adult ...