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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boll weevils are tiny beetles that eat cotton and can destroy cotton crops. They’re usually reddish- or grayish-brown, but the coloration may vary. The female lays her eggs within the bolls ...

But more than a century ago, a small creature – the boll weevil – nearly destroyed this town. It came for the cotton. Attorney and local historian Dale Marsh said, "The boll weevil was a pest ...

Today, the business is run by Matt Beall, Robert’s great-grandson, and it boasts 660 stores in 22 states under the Bealls, ...

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 nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton crop in the 1920s. It was finally eradicated in 1980. A surveillance program by the nonprofit Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North ...

The boll weevil made its debut in South Texas in 1894. Each female lays up to 200 eggs, each in a separate cotton boll. The boll then falls to the ground. Eggs hatch in three days to continue the ...

The rural South was struggling in 1925. The boll weevil had invaded cotton fields, wreaking economic havoc and misery across ...

Yes, I do. We'll go and pick cotton and I actually experienced the boll weevil on my cotton sack, on my hands, on my arms. They would knock them off. They didn't bite. And it was always ...