It refers to any sort of plague or pestilence that might attack your cargo, such
as boll weevils in those gorgeous cotton blankets or E. coli on your Texas steaks.
Not exact matches
Well
as a gunner, I want us to kick the Mancs in the
boll * cks, but not when they are like this!
Decades ago, it wiped out thousands of cotton acres annually, showing up first
as brown spots on leaves, stems and even
bolls then spreading until a plant — indeed entire fields of plants — dropped leaves and stopped growing.
IIVs have also been studied for control of mosquitoes [32], [33] and
boll weevil [31], the latter work examined the virus itself, with an emphasis on the proteins that it produces
as the basis for a possible biopesticide.
Terry brings readers eye to eye with a litany of malevolent creatures, such
as fire ants,
boll weevils, lice and bedbugs.
and
bolls isn't nearly
as pretty a word
as blossoms, so I'm stickin» with it.
The weathered wood with hooks also came from Gordman's
as well
as the cotton
bolls wreath.