In the Brazilian Cerrado region, the absence of more effective control, as observed in the present study, can favor the survival of
boll weevil (Ribeiro et al., 2015), which is the reason why the Brazilian legislation of plant sanitary defense of the states Goias and Bahia recommends that, during the sanitary fallow period, there should be no cotton stalk regrowth, i.e., all plants should be destroyed by chemical (herbicide) or physical (mechanical) processes.
Boll weevil infestations which are allowed to develop during the winter may be extremely difficult to control during the following season.
Researchers have attempted to mechanize the collection of these fruiting structures infested by cotton
boll weevil. COAD & MCGEHEE (1917) built a machine to collect
boll weevil adults and squares of infested cotton plants, but their attempts to control the
boll weevil were unsuccessful.
Ryan links Patton's song to Faulkner through both artists' use of the
boll weevil, citing a passage in The Sound and the Fury to prove his point--Jason Compson's "duet" with the elder African American, Uncle Job.
The great genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity of the
boll weevil makes it able to adapt to a wide variety of environmental conditions, allowing the expansion of its geographical distribution beyond its center of origin (Central America) (Showler, 2009).
Charlie Rawlings's ascendancy in the New South was an American success story until the Great War and
boll weevil destroyed not only his personal fortune but also the fortunes of many other Southerners.
(2005) conducted an experiment regarding the effect of sowing dates on the population of
boll weevils, they concluded that squares damage of
boll weevils were 44-56% more abundant in later planted treatments than in the earlier planted treatments.
The Texas
Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation should be private enough to require active supervision under either the Fourth Circuit's or FTC and Areeda-Hovenkamp standards, because it's both peopled with growers and accountable to (that is, elected by) growers.
The seeds were in fact genetically modified seeds by multinational monster corporation Monsanto--MON on the New York Stock Exchange for those out of the loop--which promised farmers that with GM cotton seed, never again would they have to deal with the evil cotton
boll weevil, a pestilence that destroyed about half their annual crop.
A significant positive correlation between genetic variation and geographical distance was found for
boll weevil Anthonomus grandis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) populations in the United States (Kim and Sappington, 2004).
In the early 20th century, more hard times came to the region when the
boll weevil arrived and devastated the cotton crop.