In late summer of2007, cotton growers in Texas's Southern Rolling Plains had reason to be alarmed. Hundreds of boll weevils were turning up in their fields. By the end of the year, more than 6,000 weevils were found in monitoring traps spread across several counties where the insect had been eradicated since 2000. But a team of Agricultural Research Service scientists with a variety of skills was able to track down the likely origins of the reinfestation, giving cotton growers and entomologists someguidance on how to eradicate them and shedding light on just how far boll weevils can travel under certain conditions.
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