Where'd that boll weevil come from? DNA-marker technology helps keep tabs on legendary insect pest. From: Agricultural Research | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The devastation wrought by the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis, on the U.S. cotton industry during most of the 20th century is the stuff of social, economic, and agricultural legend.

Though evicted from more than 12 million acres of southern farmland by eradication efforts started in the 1970s, the pest is still found in portions of the mid-South and South Texas.

"In Texas and surrounding states, it's common for a zone that's far advanced in boll weevil eradication to share borders with zones still harboring substantial weevil populations," says entomologist Tom ...

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