Boll weevils, Anthonomus grandis Boh., disperse from late-season cotton fields into overwintering habitats in late-summer, and return to emergent cotton fields in the spring. A study was conducted near Caldwell, Texas, to investigate the effect of prevailing wind direction on the distribution of daily capture of boll weevils. Pheromone traps were placed at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 miles within each of eight sectors (45° span of compass direction per sector) radiating from a non-irrigated, 2-acre cotton plot (core field). Boll weevils were marked with paint, released at the core field, and recaptured to verify the distribution of insect flight displacements and their association with prevailing wind direction in 1998 and 1999. Daily recapture of marked boll weevils within the 1- to 5-mile range in the late-summer of 1998 and 1999 was generally too low for logistic regression. However, logistic regression established a significant positive relationship between the proportion of daily mean capture and the daily proportion of wind heading by sector for a five-day period following the shredding of the core field on 6 September 1999. The results of this study have direct implication to the development of strategies for monitoring and managing boll weevil populations that are moving from late-season cotton into overwintering habitats.