NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cotton producers in Tennessee have decided to continue a program that prevents the destructive boll weevil insect from reintroduction in the state. Tennessee agriculture ...

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 ...

Kansas cotton producers are proposing that lawmakers create a prevention program for boll weevils, an insect that could decimate a crop of growing importance to the state's agricultural economy. Boll ...

Now that the boll-weevil army, which crossed the Rio Grande some twenty years ago, has reached the walls of the North Carolina mountains, and during its long march has changed the economic life of the ...

Art lovers in Enterprise, Alabama, have prompted social media debate by erecting statue of iconic Ronald McDonald recreated to look like a boll weevil. Facebook video screenshot A tongue-in-cheek arts ...