A program designed to guard against a pest that could devastate the South Carolina cotton crop just got cheaper and easier for the farmers whose crops it aims to protect. The per-acre assessment ...

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 ...

Barney Pustejovsky recalls when, only a few years ago, many cotton growers opposed efforts to organize a boll weevil eradication program for the Northern Blacklands zone of Texas. “You can’t find much ...

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 ...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. - When Charles Niemann started farming in 1960, he knew the threat of the cotton boll weevil made his livelihood risky. He treated his fields in South Texas with pesticide every few ...

Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services recently completed the 2018 cotton boll weevil trapping and detected no weevils in Virginia. VDACS oversees a monitoring program to ensure ...

Boll weevil management remains a critical aspect of sustainable cotton agriculture worldwide, given the pest’s capacity to inflict severe yield losses by attacking reproductive structures of cotton ...

MONTICELLO -- The Northwest Oklahoma State University Rangers traveled to the University of Arkansas at Monticello hungry for their first season win Saturday and got it, 26-23. The fall afternoon ...

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - The city of Enterprise is the only place in the world with a monument dedicated to a pest. The monument isn’t heralding the bug itself but the prosperity it brought when it ...

A community-wide art project officially began Thursday night with a special unveiling ceremony at the Enterprise Civic Center. Vendors and guests from across Enterprise joined together to welcome four ...