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 ...

One immense frosting-laden slice of cake from Boll Weevil Café & Sweetery will challenge the most rapacious sweet tooth. The dessert menu is a chocoholic's fantasy. Five devil's food dark cake ...

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 ...

The growers and the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation deserve a tremendous amount of credit.” A boll weevil pheromone trap at the edge of a cotton field. Traps continue to monitor the pest ...

The traps will be monitored every four weeks rather than every three weeks and will be removed when no food is available for boll weevils in the field. “The new protocol will slightly reduce the ...