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    became a serious pest in South America as well. Since 1978, the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in the U.S. allowed full-scale cultivation to resume in many...
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  • Boll Weevil Eradication Program is a program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which has sought to eradicate the boll weevil...
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    Cotton (redirect from Cotton Boll)
    highly successful Boll Weevil Eradication Program (BWEP), this pest has been eliminated from cotton in most of the United States. This program, along with the...
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    1980s, and on lessons from smallpox eradication. Its first coordinator was Nick Ward. The strategy for the eradication of polio rests on immunising every...
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    legal control, and are used to monitor the success of the Boll Weevil Eradication Program and the spread of the spongy moth. The high species-specificity...
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    the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in 1978 to combat the boll weevil. The program was expanded to several states in 1988 and ultimately eradicated the...
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    economic problems, and eradication of the boll weevil was prioritized. The Agricultural Research Service built the Boll Weevil Research Laboratory, which...
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  • the Eradication of Poliomyelitis (commonly known as the Global Certification Commission or GCC) in 1995 to independently verify the eradication of wild...
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  • During this time Smith held several assignments including the Boll Weevil Eradication Program, the Gypsy Moth Parasite Laboratory in Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts...
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  • of the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization is to assist cotton growers in the State in the eradication of the boll weevil. The OBWEO is funded...
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    basic components: Acceptable pest levels—The emphasis is on control, not eradication. IPM holds that wiping out an entire pest population is often impossible...
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  • Cactoblastis cactorum celery leaf miner, Liriomyza Trifolii cotton pests: boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella Cydalima...
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  • moth (Lymantria dispar), a devastating forestry pest, and to eradicate the boll weevil and pink bollworm, two of the most damaging pest of cotton. Conventional...
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    is credited for making important discoveries controlling the cotton boll weevil using powdered lead arsenate. In 1910, Newell became state entomologist...
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    as the principal proponent of legislation authorizing the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in Georgia, which reestablished cotton as a major cash crop...
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    threats to media outlets which reported that he was calling for the eradication of transgender people or the transgender community, stating that the...
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  • alternative host plants (including the weevil's likely original host) that have proved critical to the understanding of boll weevil ecology. These discoveries helped...
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  • Kuba, and K. Kinjo. 2003. A progress report on the eradication program of the sweet potato weevil, Cylas formicarius (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Brentidae)...
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    S2CID 154646873. Economic impacts of the boll weevil: Mississippi State University. "History of the Boll Weevil in the United States". "History of Enterprise"...
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    weevil, was introduced to North America to control exotic musk thistle (Carduus nutans) and Canadian thistle (Cirsium arvense). However, the weevil also...
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    agent, was originally from Indiana. He pioneered crop dusting to eradicate the boll weevil, which destroyed cotton throughout the Mississippi Delta in the...
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  • contact with Project 2025, seeing its goals as aligned with their Agenda 47 program. Trump later attempted to distance himself from the plan. After he won...
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    cinnabarinus. Eradication of the § Pink Bollworm in this and neighbouring states was greatly aided by the deployment of Bt cotton. The eradication program began...
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    Vallapa; Kokpol, Udom; Choudhary, M.Iqbal; Clardy, Jon (November 1993). "Boll weevil antifeedants from Arundo donax". Phytochemistry. 34 (5): 1277–1279. doi:10...
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     1084. Sterling, W.L. (1978). "Fortuitous biological suppression of the boll weevil by the red imported fire ant". Environmental Entomology. 7 (4): 564–568...
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    for Israel and its right to self-defense. He called for the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza. When asked if there was a way to stop Hamas without...
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  • Arkansas Alternative Energy Commission Arkansas Beef Council Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Committee Arkansas Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission Arkansas...
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    Order 13985, to "eradicate any attempt to weaken America’s institutions through these harmful and discriminatory 'equity" programs". Instructing the...
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    entrepreneurs of using "transhumanistic science" to control humanity and eradicate religion through advanced gene editing, robotics, and forced microscopic...
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    Advisors on Oklahoma Feed Yards Act All Commodity Commissions Boll Weevil Eradication Organization Oklahoma Conservation Commission Oklahoma Department...
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