According to Shurley and Bednarz, peak maturity of a cotton boll occurs at its opening. |
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The year before boll weevils marched into Georgia in 1915, the state produced 2.8 million bales of cotton. |
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A tiny cotton boll harvested from a field ends up in a 500-pound bale that is shipped to textile mills or traded on the world market. |
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With subsequent control of the boll weevil, cotton cultivation has increased but has not surpassed peanuts as the primary cash crop. |
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Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls, where it is hard to get. |
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Before the eradication program started, I was already using boll weevil traps, and I didn't have any trouble with the boll weevil at all. |
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Adding to cotton growers' woes, the boll weevil migrated from Mexico to Texas in the 1890s and gradually invaded the entire cotton belt. |
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Until he saw the eradication program in use, he could hardly believe that he would ever see the day when the boll weevil would be eliminated. |
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The spindles grasp the fiber and selectively pull it out of the boll, leaving unwanted plant parts or trash behind. |
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Initially, localized spots appear and progressively coalesce to cover the whole cotton boll. |
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There is also significant reproduction of boll weevils in nature on a number of wild malvaceous hosts, including weeds. |
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Nearly 5 million small farmers in China, India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico now grow cotton genetically modified to protect it against the boll weevil. |
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If you want to know if the boll weevil is likely to attack your cotton, you'd best be looking at past, current, and potential paths of the weevil worldwide. |
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Although many were able to withstand natural disasters such a floods and drought, the boll weevil and the variable price of cotton, there were also those that did not. |
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The U.S. cotton industry, facing serious economic challenges, focused on elimination of the boll weevil as one of the best ways to reduce its enormous costs. |
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Not only is it thirstier than most other commercial crops, it requires heavy applications of pesticides to keep boll weevils and other pests at bay. |
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Every portrait looked like a naked boll weevil with a fuzzy smile. |
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At first, manufacturers who used the arsenic to make an insecticide for killing cotton boll weevils in the South provided the most lucrative market for Anaconda's byproducts. |
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Without such natural interference, the offspring of a single pair of boll weevils could amount to several million in one season. |
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And cotton crops would often fail when pests like the boll weevil tore through the fields. |
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Total boll numbers and seed cotton mass per metre were recorded. |
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Since its entry into Texas in the 1890s from Central America, the boll weevil has destroyed and reduced the quality of several billion dollars' worth of cotton, over 3 million ha. |
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More problems built up with the boll weevil infestation, when thousands of agricultural jobs were lost. |
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Efforts to eradicate the boll weevil in cotton over the years have been largely successful. |
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Perhaps you have heard of the cotton boll weevil, pea, bean, pepper or the highly destructive strawberry weevil. |
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In the early 20th century, more hard times came to the region when the boll weevil arrived and devastated the cotton crop. |
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The '76 Congress contained enough boll weevil Dems to provide a close fight for any piece of legislation. |
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He served on agricultural task forces on boll weevils and the pink boll worm. |
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The boll weevil infestation and agricultural problems had cost sharecroppers and farmers their jobs. |
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Historically, in North America, one of the most economically destructive pests in cotton production has been the boll weevil. |
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Gruene Hall was built in 1878 as the cotton farming community's social hall, and had miraculously continued to operate through the boll weevil invasion and Great Depression. |
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Cotton crops failed due to boll weevil infestation and successive severe flooding in 1912 and 1913, creating crisis conditions for many African Americans. |
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The team found insignificant amounts of organophosphate insecticides used to control boll weevils in runoff from either the Bt or non-Bt cotton sites. |
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Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. |
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Tim began his blues odyssey in the Boll Weevils, then Soul Sect, 3 AM, Ra Ho Tep, The Band With No Name and The Last Fair Deal plus lots of solo stuff. |
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Boll and Hunter, who ran the companies Cutting Edge Telecom Limited and Pokie Limited, pleaded guilty to offences under the Trade Descriptions Act at an earlier hearing. |
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Boll weevils could have consumed every cotton plant on the planet. |
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