The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) devastated cotton crops throughout the southern states. MPI/Getty Images Marsh's grandfather owned a cotton farm in Enterprise in the early 1900s.

What do weevils look like? These small bugs are about 0.125-0.25 inches or 3-6 millimeters long. They're shaped like tiny pears or light bulbs. They have long and slender snouts in front of their ...

Life-sized boll weevils will be unveiled next week throughout Enterprise. Replicas of the famed insect will be cropping up over the city to create an eye-catching public arts project.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An Alabama McDonald’s restaurant caused some buzz online after it unveiled a new attraction at its location: a giant statue of a boll weevil. But this wasn’t just any ...

Boll weevils still cling to around 20% of the cotton acres in the Lower Rio Grande Valley along the river. But 30 to 40 years ago, it was a major problem plaguing millions of acres spanning the ...

Team Linda Simmons Realty recently welcomed a weevil to its ranks, becoming one of the first Enterprise locations to sport a custom-designed weevil in the year of the Boll Weevil Centennial ...

Two women have designed a commemorative coin to recognize 100 years since the Boll Weevil monument was erected. Enterprise high school Quarterbacks club secretary Judi Stinnett got the design idea ...

Boll Weevil closes stores after Ch. 7 filingSAN DIEGO The ownership rights to the 42-year-old, family-owned Boll Weevil restaurant chain are unclear as the parent company filed for Chapter 7 ...

The per-acre assessment charged to cotton growers to fund the South Carolina Boll Weevil Eradication Program has been reduced to $1.25 from $1.75 and could save the state’s cotton growers an ...

State Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said the boll weevil has been eradicated in Louisiana. “When our administration took office in January of 2008, we set a goal of ...

Cotton boll weevils, which originated in Mexico, were first identified in Beeville, Tex., in 1894. By 1915, they had spread across the Cotton Belt and wreaked havoc on the crop, leaving families ...