The boll weevil eradication program in Texas was initiated in 1994 in an effort to rid the state of the cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Bohman. The cotton growing area in the state was divided into nine zones, each encompassing between 150,000 and 3.9 million acres of cotton. The plan is to sequentially implement the program in each of the nine zones to achieve statewide eradication within 10 years.