Taming the ravenous boll weevil
A trap does its best to attract the destructive boll weevil. Sex ultimately saved Georgia cotton. Decades of pesticide spraying barely dented the weevil's appetite. But a marriage of chemistry (pesticides) and biology (pheromones) finally bested the little bugger. Federal and university researchers discovered the pheromone, or scent, that weevils give off when they want to make whoopee. The horny beetles are then lured into bright-green traps filled with insecticide that encircle fields. File
