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• n  any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles

• Later the weevils even develop wings for a short time and follow seeds that the plants may have thrown to the wind.
• In the deep South last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop.
• Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season.

News & Articles

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• Francis Capra back for 'Veronica Mars' movie
  LOS ANGELES, June 13 (UPI) -- Francis Capra will reprise his role of California biker gang leader Eli "Weevil" Navarro in the "Veronica Mars" movie, creator Rob Thomas told TVGuide.com.
  June 13, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Jimi Hendrix in Forbes
  Definitely, the boll weevil was a bad boy,said Kevin Hendrix, a fourth-generation farmer who harvests cotton outside Statesboro in eastern Georgia. "We're sure glad he's gone."
• Mike Pence in Washington Post
  We also will attempt to restart the old GOP-Boll Weevil coalition that proved so successful in the 1980s to advance President Reagan's revolution,Pence said. "There are Blue Dog Democrats that want to balance the budget, address our...
• Carl D Anderson in Delta Farm Press
  The boll weevil eradication program, good weather and new technologies padded the yield in 2004,said Carl Anderson, Texas A&M economist. "This year, we had excellent subsoil moisture across the state to start, a requirement in our dryland...