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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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The battle against the pesky cotton-damaging boll weevil got a boost Wednesday. Legislation signed into law would allow a vote once every 10 years on whether to continue ...

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 ...

It's a bug, it's a bronze statue, it's… the ugliest public artwork in America? According to a new 2025 survey by riverswallart.com, the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Ala., tops the list of the ...