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 ...

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 ...

Enterprise now embraces the bug and hosts boll weevil statues in its honor. Weevil Way is comprised of 27, 6-foot-tall boll weevil statues that are sponsored by businesses in the area.

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 ...

The Boll Weevil Monument was erected in 1919 as an ironic salute to the pest that made planters change their ways. Just think, there would be no National Peanut Festival in L.A. without that ...

The boll weevil has proved a blessing, but only in so far as his coming has served to destroy the onemoney-crop system, Coffee County in Alabama, where there has really been a monument of ...

Boll weevils are a beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers. The bugs are notorious for how a plague of the insects can wipe out a crop, which is why House Agriculture Committee members are ...