The cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is the most devastating agricultural pest in American history, and was called "a wave of evil." United States Department of Agriculture ...

Labbe noted, ‘The sterile insect technique seemed promising as prior research was conducted with this technique for control of the cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis), a congeneric of pepper ...

The beetle is the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis, an agricultural menace that destroyed cotton crops here a hundred years ago, ravaging the area’s economy and taking its farmers to the edge of ...

For many years, from South Texas to Argentina, the feeding habits and nutritional requirements of the boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman) have been poorly understood, making it harder ...

Esteban Rodríguez-Leyva, Philip A. Stansly, David J. Schuster, Ernesto Bravo-Mosqueda, Diversity and Distribution of Parasitoids of Anthonomus eugenii (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Mexico and ...

Indeed, since first being discovered in southern Texas in 1892, the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis, has caused billions of dollars in losses to U.S. cotton.

For the first time since its arrival in the state in 1906, the long-snouted beetle, more formally known as Anthonomus grandis, hasn't turned up in a single field.

GREAT alarm has been caused in America by the ravages and rapid spread of a new insect pest, the Mexican Boll-weevil (Anthonomus grandis, Boheman), which was described from Vera Cruz in 1843, but ...

Boll weevils (Anthonomus grandis) such as this one, found on a front porch and photographed under a scanning electron microscope, can savage an entire cotton field. The beetles can grow up to 8 ...