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UVALDE, Texas — The boll weevil, a pest that has caused billions of dollars in losses to U.S. cotton growers, may face eradication in southwest Texas because of cold weather, according to the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
Below-average temperatures earlier this month may have killed off much of the Southwest’s boll-weevil population and any stray cotton plants the pests were feeding on, said Noel Troxclair, an entomologist at the AgriLife Extension Service in Uvalde.
