462 



U 



X 



907. U. S. Agricultural Research Servicd. 1966-1980. Annual conference report 

 on cotton-insect research and control, 19th-33rd. (ISSN 0098-0196.) The 

 Service, Washington, D.C. [Publisher and place of publication vary: 

 32nd and 33rd published by U.S. Science and Education Administration, 

 30th-33rd published in New Orleans.] 



Preceding report revised to include latest information on Insecticides or other 

 control techniques that have been developed for practical use in controlling 

 cotton insects. Publication provides research, extension and other entomologists, 

 cotton growers, chemical and cotton industries v/ith latest available information 

 on control of cotton insects and has status as the "Cotton insects bible" of the 

 world. 



908. . 1968. 1000-year-old boll weevil. Agric. Res. 17(4): 10. 



Cotton fragments from a Mexican cave have added a thousand years to the history 

 of the boll weevil. ARS botanist, C. E. Smith, Jr., obtained the cotton frag- 

 ment from an archeological excavation in Oaxaca Mexico, but credits discovery 

 of the weevil to S. G. Stephens, Professor of Plant Evolution, at North 

 Carolina State University who found the insect *»lthin an empty seed hull 

 whiltP'^SjcamTning cottuu fragments he had obtained from Smith. The boll weevil 

 was identified by ARS entomologist, R. E. Warner. Archeologist K. V. Flannery 

 dated the fragments at AD 900 with the carbon 14 dating technique. 



909. . 1969. Caged weevils sharpen detection tools. Agric. Res. 17(10): 14. 

 Sticky traps baited with live male boll weevils look promising for detection, 

 survey, and possibly control of this cotton pest. Male boll weevils give off 

 an attractant that is equally effective in luring both male and female weevils. 

 Insects attracted to baited traps become entangled in the sticky coating and 

 die. The traps have the best immediate potential as a survey and detection 



•1 ^*.»^-t^'.-^.c-<=tf '~-^i.i^:^~s.\ 



■ ^ ■ ^ ■' ^ i S. 



