Randy Crowe still has vivid memories of growing cotton in the days when the boll weevil ran rampant in the fields he and his father, Dwight, farmed near Oxford in north Mississippi.

“For a couple of years before the eradication effort got under way,” he says, “farmers checked their own pheromone traps. We had two or three traps per acre, and when we’d go to inspect them they would be jam-packed with weevils, with more crawling all over the outside trying to get in.”

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