Sentences with phrase «boll weevils»

Terry brings readers eye to eye with a litany of malevolent creatures, such as fire ants, boll weevils, lice and bedbugs.

Cotton farmers spray permethrin on boll weevils, but in this case the pesticide is bonded tightly to fibers in a patent - pending process, which lab tests have shown will repel insects through 25 washings.

Later, comparing samples of multiple species of rice grown in numerous regions around the world, he found arsenic levels almost universally elevated, including in the U.S. Notably, much of the U.S. rice crop is grown in regions of the South where the soil is contaminated by old arsenic - based pesticides, once used by farmers to protect cotton crops from boll weevils.

Again, he had to hold all Republicans and win several dozen of the «boll weevils» — to demonstrate that Ronald Reagan controlled the House.

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.

Neither the boll weevil statue nor the statehouse is in Birmingham.

The boll weevil monument is in Enterprise and the statehouse in Montgomery» which is not only the state capital but also home of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

(There is a statue of the cotton «destroying boll weevil in front of the statehouse in Birmingham, Alabama, for just this reason.)

It was erected «in profound appreciation» to the boll weevil, which toppled King Cotton but caused farmers who switched to peanuts to prosper.

[22] He was a member of the «boll weevil» and the Conservative Democratic Forum.

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.

Another plant that has similar properties in regards to arsenic is cotton, a crop once heavily sprayed with pesticides containing arsenic in order to kill off the boll weevil beetle.

And give up all those big grants that allow him to «study» the sex life of the boll weevil and spew his idiotic «findings» and call it science.