BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state agriculture department says that even cotton planted just to look pretty needs state OKs and checkups for boll weevils.Assistantcommissioner Todd Parker says state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 22—HARLINGEN — Drive through the Valley, and you can spot them everywhere, the lime green bottles used to trap cotton growers ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. — A small insect pest that drove many Mississippi cotton farmers to the brink of despair a few years ago now finds its days numbered. Boll weevils could be counted in the thousands ...

The Boll Weevil Eradication Program is now in its second year in the Lubbock/Southern High Plains Region, and program managers say the bugs are dying off faster than they expected. This is the second ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural pest in the ...

Eradication activities are in full swing in the Southern Blacklands Eradication Zone. Traps have been placed around cotton fields throughout the zone to provide Texas Boll Weevil Eradication ...

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 ...

State Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said the boll weevil has been eradicated in Louisiana. “When our administration took office in January of 2008, we set a goal of completely ...

Oct. 22—HARLINGEN — Drive through the Valley, and you can spot them everywhere, the lime green bottles used to trap cotton growers' biggest nemesis, the boll weevil. A small army of inspectors in ...