Insect Monument of Alabama
Boll Weevil Monument Of Alabama Insects are most fascinating part of nature. Apart from the beneficial part of the insects such as pollination, honey production by honey bee and maintaining the ecological balance in both terrestrial and aquatic eco-system, insects also act as pest of crops, domestic animals and human beings. We might have heard about the establishment of the monument for famous personality or divine objects, but a monument was erected in remembrance of destructive agricultural pest in Alabama, a constituent state of the United States of America. Boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis ) is a most destructive pest of cotton, infesting and destroying the cotton crop all over the world. In the early 19th century, cotton was the major commercial crop grown especially for its lint in the states of America. The boll weevil entered America from Mexico in 1892. Cotton cultivation and marketing of lint was considered to be the major source of income and economic growth in America...