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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROOKLET, GA--For decades, a small insect created big problems for cotton farmers. Now it looks like the boll weevil is gone from Georgia fields. Farmers say the solution didn't come quickly or ...

It's a bug, it's a bronze statue, it's… the ugliest public artwork in America? According to a new 2025 survey by riverswallart.com, the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Ala., tops the list of the ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) -Over 100 years ago, the boll weevil insect threatened to destroy the cotton crop in Enterprise. The citizens planted peanut crops to avoid economic ruin, thus bringing prosperity ...

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - The city of Enterprise is the only place in the world with a monument dedicated to a pest. The monument isn’t heralding the bug itself but the prosperity it brought when it ...