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The first boll weevil found in Mississippi was on September 20, 1907, by W. D. Hunter. By 1915 the boll weevil had covered the entire state. By 1920 all areas to the East were infested. The boll weevil had covered 600,000 square miles in approximately 30 years.
The boll weevil, a small grayish-brown beetle dependent on cotton plants for its food and reproduction, first entered the United States from Mexico around 1892. By early 1907 it stood poised to enter Mississippi’s rich farmlands. The pest had already destroyed an estimated four hundred million bales worth of cotton in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and […]
Boll Weevil Management. Under provisions of the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Act, the Bureau assists with the maintenance/containment of the eradication of the boll weevil from Mississippi. The current assessment fee for the Mississippi Boll Weevil Eradication Program is $1.00 per acre.
The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a species of beetle in the family Curculionidae. The boll weevil feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central Mexico, [1] it migrated into the United States from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the ...
31 de jul. de 2018 · The pest that once cost Mississippi cotton farmers millions of dollars yearly in lost yields, and which they thought could never be conquered, has now been absent from the state’s cotton fields for a decade.
17 de may. de 2017 · The boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis) is not much to look at – just a grayish, little beetle with an impressively long snout. But this particular beetle, and its hunger for cotton, was powerful enough to forge an unprecedented partnership between farmers, legislators and scientists.
In the early 20th century the cotton boll weevil, a nasty little beetle that had already destroyed millions of pounds of cotton in Texas and Louisiana, stood on the western banks of the Mississippi River poised to invade the richest and most important cotton land in the world: the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. In the months and years that followed ...
