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boll weevil

Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis)

Small beetle (Anthonomus grandis) found almost everywhere cotton is cultivated. It is the most serious cotton pest in North America. Adults vary in size according to how much food they received as larvae, but they average about 0.25 in. (6 mm) long, including the long, curved snout. In the spring adults deposit eggs in cotton buds or fruit. After hatching, the larvae live within the cotton boll, destroying the seeds and surrounding fibres. Because the larvae and pupae remain inside the cotton bolls, they cannot be killed with insecticides. The boll weevil destroys an estimated three to five million bales of cotton annually.

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Boll Weevil
Jan 01, 2003; BOLL WEEVIL BOLL WEEVIL, a quarter-inch-long beetle that eats the buds and young bolls of cotton plants, resulting in damage that...
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Boll fits in roles, delivers.(SportsXtra)
Oct 13, 2000; If Bob Boll found out Prospect would make the playoffs if the Knights had just one more cheerleader, the senior would probably be...
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On the Rationality of Poetry: Heinrich Boll's Aesthetic Thinking.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; On the Rationality of Poetry: Heinrich Boll's Aesthetic Thinking. By FRANK FINLAY. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und...
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Boll Furniture closing its doors after 69 years: Business founded by two brothers who came with nothing but determination
May 08, 2007; DAILY MAIL BUSINESS EDITOR Boll Furniture Co., a Charleston mainstay for 69 years, is closing, the company announced in an...
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Germans, guilt, and the second threshold of Heinrich Boll: a study of three non-fictional works.
Apr 01, 2002; Theodor Adorno and Jean Amery both praised Heinrich Boll (1917-1985) as a moral figure. Amery maintained that without him 'die...
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