Aerial surveys can spot boll weevil hideouts
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
U.S. cotton growers spent $20 million to monitor and control boll weevils in 2015, and the pest continues to infest cotton in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the southernmost cotton-producing region in the United States. To prevent the insects from taking refuge in cotton plants, growers there mow down their plants after harvest and may spray plant stalks with herbicides.