BROOKLET, GA--For decades, a small insect created big problems for cotton farmers. Now it looks like the boll weevil is gone from Georgia fields. Farmers say the solution didn't come quickly or ...

Kansas cotton producers are proposing that lawmakers create a prevention program for boll weevils, an insect that could decimate a crop of growing importance to the state's agricultural economy. Boll ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) -Over 100 years ago, the boll weevil insect threatened to destroy the cotton crop in Enterprise. The citizens planted peanut crops to avoid economic ruin, thus bringing prosperity ...

You don’t have to be a security expert to know that Windows and its software have serious security problems. It seems that no sooner than Microsoft fixes some holes then more are revealed. Part of ...

It's a bug, it's a bronze statue, it's… the ugliest public artwork in America? According to a new 2025 survey by riverswallart.com, the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Ala., tops the list of the ...

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - The city of Enterprise is the only place in the world with a monument dedicated to a pest. The monument isn’t heralding the bug itself but the prosperity it brought when it ...

Now that the boll-weevil army, which crossed the Rio Grande some twenty years ago, has reached the walls of the North Carolina mountains, and during its long march has changed the economic life of the ...

Art lovers in Enterprise, Alabama, have prompted social media debate by erecting statue of iconic Ronald McDonald recreated to look like a boll weevil. Facebook video screenshot A tongue-in-cheek arts ...