An Alabama town honors the boll weevil 04:52. In the center of Enterprise, Alabama, there's an intersection honoring an insect. "We are one of the few cities in the world where you have, in the ...

Native to Mexico, boll weevils first showed up in Texas in 1892. It’s unknown how they traveled north, as these beetles don’t fly very far. However, they spread quickly.

If the boll weevil eats the cotton plant because it seeks agreeable food, is it not possible that in nature there is some kind of food it likes even better—its original diet, for example?

So the boll weevil brought ruin to Enterprise, but in a roundabout way, it also sparked a revival. Today, the boll weevils become the town mascot. And some of these things you just can't unsee.

Cotton boll weevils, which originated in Mexico, were first identified in Beeville, Tex., in 1894. By 1915, they had spread across the Cotton Belt and wreaked havoc on the crop, leaving families ...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. - When Charles Niemann started farming in 1960, he knew the threat of the cotton boll weevil made his livelihood risky. He treated his fields in South Texas with pesticide every few ...

Don’t tell anyone, but I used to dread the holiday season. The trouble started Christmas morning when I was 5. One of my three older brothers was putting together his new Lionel train tracks on ...

Boll weevils still cling to around 20% of the cotton acres in the Lower Rio Grande Valley along the river. But 30 to 40 years ago, it was a major problem plaguing millions of acres spanning the ...

Remember when the Boll Weevil Monument saved Christmas? | Mark Hinson. Mark Hinson. Guest columnist. Don’t tell anyone, but I used to dread the holiday season.

If you feel your family has visited all the “usual” tourist destinations in Alabama, why not get quirky this summer?

A program designed to guard against a pest that could devastate the South Carolina cotton crop just got cheaper and easier for the farmers whose crops it aims to protect.

Weevil Way is comprised of 27, 6-foot-tall boll weevil statues that are sponsored by businesses in the area. Each weevil gets a unique personality that corresponds with the business it represents.