NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana and Arkansas have stepped up boll weevil trapping because two of the destructive, long-snouted beetles were found in northern Mississippi. "We run scared about getting ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Red and green traps attract more sweet potato weevils than other colors, and a Montana State University researcher who made that discovery wants to know if Montana insects react the ...

Oct. 22—HARLINGEN — Drive through the Valley, and you can spot them everywhere, the lime green bottles used to trap cotton growers' biggest nemesis, the boll weevil. A small army of inspectors in ...

The pepper weevil (Anthonomous eugenii Cano) is a destructive invasive insect pest of cultivated peppers in the southeastern United States. Adult pepper weevils feed on fruit and leaf buds and lay ...

It has been more than 15 years since cotton farmers in the Big Country and Concho Valley have worried about losing their crop to boll weevils. The 12-county Southern Rolling Plains zone around San ...

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 ...

Earlier this year the Rancho Santa Fe Association and Fairbanks Ranch partnered with UC Riverside on a new research study targeting the South American Palm Weevil, the destructive pest that has killed ...

In mid September I was walking on the CU campus when I noticed a teeming population of weevils on a small cluster of Canada thistles. Almost half of them were amplectic. Several hours later, when I ...

Across San Diego it is becoming more common to see the sad sight of a flattened halo of fronds atop a palm tree, the sure sign of a tree that has fallen victim to the South American Palm Weevil.

A program designed to guard against a pest that could devastate the South Carolina cotton crop just got cheaper and easier for the farmers whose crops it aims to protect. The per-acre assessment ...

Few things can strike fear into the heart of a banana farmer more than finding an infestation of the banana weevil. Females of this coffee bean–sized insect lay their eggs between the plant’s leaves ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 98, No. 4 (December, 2015), pp. 1019-1024 (6 pages) The red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is a serious pest of palm in ...