The boll weevil nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton crop in ... Last year, the foundation put out 7,125 traps, each one monitoring about 57 acres. There were 403,388 acres of cotton planted in ...

The boll weevil nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton crop in ... Last year, the foundation put out 7,125 traps, each one monitoring about 57 acres. There were 403,388 acres of cotton planted in ...

Dispatches from the front say traps--not dissimilar to those used to trap boll weevils down this way--were baited and used to see where the hornets traveled about. And those traps have not been ...

Successful control depends on control of adults and their accurate detection when they colonize the crops. The commercial trap and boll weevil attract-and-control tubes (BWACT) are the only available ...

The study was conducted in Bahia, Brazil, focusing on boll weevils from different environments: dry bolls, squares, and traps Boll weevils from dry bolls showed higher reproductive potential and ...

Insecticide spray, spider, snake and tick, termite, snail, mouse trap and bat, scorpion, snout beetle, moth and silverfish boll weevil stock illustrations Pest insects, bugs, animals and insecticide ...

The first breakthrough was the discovery of boll weevil pheromones, which were used to lure and trap the pests. Scientists also found out that boll weevil development and reproduction slowed ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Empty bug traps make Joe Harris happy. “There’s no doubt about it, catching no boll weevils is a very good thing,” said the director of the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication ...

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 ...

Frisbie and Anderson agree. Two generations of cotton producers have never seen the impact of boll weevil infestations on their crops and operational budgets. Maintaining the program via monitoring ...

A boll weevil pheromone trap at the edge of a cotton field. Traps continue to monitor the pest across the Cotton Belt to prevent its reintroduction. (Photo by Ray Frisbie, Texas A&M AgriLife.) ...