Abstract
Dispersal of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman, was studied in Mississippi from 1970 through 1973 by releasing marked adults in central fields planted to cotton and locating traps at various distances and directions. The maximum distances sampled were 10.4 miles in 1970, 24 miles in 1971 and 50 miles in 1972 and 1973. Of the total of 383,061 native boll weevils marked and released, 265 were recaptured at distances from the release site of from 1 to 33 miles. Marked weevils were recaptured at the maximum distances sampled in 1970 and 1971. The longest distance, 33 miles, was recorded during the 1973 study.
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