ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - The city of Enterprise is the only place in the world with a monument dedicated to a pest. The monument isn’t heralding the bug itself but the prosperity it brought when it ...

Boll weevils plagued the cotton industry throughout much of the Cotton Belt for almost a century before entomologists and producers executed one of the most successful pest eradication programs in the ...

It's a bug, it's a bronze statue, it's… the ugliest public artwork in America? According to a new 2025 survey by riverswallart.com, the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Ala., tops the list of the ...

A program designed to guard against a pest that could devastate the South Carolina cotton crop just got cheaper and easier for the farmers whose crops it aims to protect. The per-acre assessment ...

Shane learns how the boll weevil became an icon in Enterprise, Alabama. Over an ice cream with Historian Laponce Harrison, Shane learns the boll weevil’s history – and how this insect became an icon ...

An Alabama ice cream parlor has become known for a one-of-a-kind flavor inspired by its town’s history and the bug -- yes, bug -- that played a monumental role in it. Owned by Elizabeth and Adam ...

“Lord’s Acre” has become an institution in the South, particularly in Georgia, because acres planted for God have produced more abundant crops and have been miraculously free from the boll weevil, ...