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 ...

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 ...

The boll weevil swept into the United States from Mexico in the 1890s and eventually caused $23 billion in damage to cotton crops, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

If the boll weevil eats the cotton plant because it seeks agreeable food, is it not possible that in nature there is some kind of food it likes even better—its original diet, for example?

Boll weevils plagued the cotton industry throughout much of the Cotton Belt for almost a century before entomologists and producers ... The larvae feed on their host plant for up to two weeks ...

Boll weevils They’re usually reddish- or grayish-brown, but the coloration may vary. The female lays her eggs within the bolls, flower buds, seed pods, or squares of developing cotton plants.

A program designed to guard against a pest that could devastate the South Carolina cotton crop just got cheaper and easier for the farmers whose crops it aims to protect.

Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been ...

The boll weevil comes from Mexico and is known to destroy cotton. The year that it threatened to invade and destroy the cotton crop, scientist Dr. George Washington Carver gave advice to farmers.