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GREAT alarm has been caused in America by the ravages and rapid spread of a new insect pest, the Mexican Boll-weevil (Anthonomus grandis, Boheman), which was described from Vera Cruz in 1843, but first attracted serious notice in the region around Monclova, in the State of Coahuila, Mexico, about 1856, and within six years from that time had devastated the cotton crops to such an extent that the cultivation of the plant was actually abandoned in the neighbourhood. Thence the insect extended its ravages north and east until it reached Matamoras, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, the river which forms the boundary between Mexico and Texas.
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KIRBY, W. A Formidable Enemy to the Cotton Plant . Nature 69, 499–500 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069499b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069499b0