A. By the mid 1920s it had entered all cotton growing regions in the U.S.
On December 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their
dependence on cotton and to pursue mixed farming and manufacturing.
By mid-1921, the boll weevil had entered South Carolina.
The boll weevil contributed to the economic woes of Southern farmers during the 1920s, a situation exacerbated by the Great Depression.
Trivia
Between 1996 and 2000, the minor league baseball team in Kannapolis, North Carolina was called the Piedmont Boll Weevils, a nod to the city's heritage as a textile mill town.
A daily passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in the 1930s and 1940s along the Carolina coast was known as "The Boll Weevil Express."
Boll weevils are featured prominently in dozens of blues, country, and rock songs:
The band The Presidents of the United States of America did a song called Boll Weevil on their 1995 album The Presidents of the United States of America.
Buster Ezell performed a song called The Boll Weevil twice during the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival of 1941.
Respected Folk/Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter (aka Leadbelly) wrote a song known as The Boll Weevil, or alternatively, De Ballet of De Boll Weevil.
The singer Elvis Presley made a reference to a Boll Weevil in his song “Little Sister.”
Nina Simone scornfully describes the subject of the song "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter" as having "a mouth like a herd of boll weevils."
Woody Guthrie sang "Boll weevil Song" in a recording session for Alan Lomax on March 21 1940.
The North Mississippi Allstars recorded a "Mississippi Boll Weevil" on their 2006 album Electric blue Watermelon.
Rock band Clutch made a reference to a Boll Weevil in the song "Rock n' Roll Outlaw."
Rock bank Indian Ocean recorded a song "Boll Weevil" on their Desert Rain Album.
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