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Eradication of the Boll Weevil in Missouri

Michael L. Boyd


 
ABSTRACT

The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman, has been the number one cotton pest six of the last ten years for Missouri cotton producers. Pheromone trap counts, crop losses, and insecticide control costs all have increased since 1988. Since 1993 $6 million in annual crop losses and insecticide control costs can be attributed to the boll weevil in Missouri. A proposed expansion of the boll weevil eradication program into Missouri will be initially voted on by Missouri cotton growers in March of 2000.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2000 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 1072 - 1073
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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