Those yellow-green traps are still important for cotton
alffoto / iStock / Getty Images Plus Let's say I was still pretty young when the Boll Weevil Eradication Program came to our little corner of Georgia in the late 1980s. If you remember how it was to grow cotton prior to the successful purge of the notorious boll weevil, you probably have gray hair. I have gray hair, but let's say I was still pretty young when the Boll Weevil Eradication Program came to our little corner of Georgia in the late 1980s. I knew folks who worked the program in our area then and remember helping set and check those now-classic yellowish-gr...