That is sad, but not as sad as looking up the spelling of "boll weevil" and seeing that Alabama has a Boll Weevil Monument, and also in California, there's a Boll Weevil Restaurant. After clicking through, it's revealed to be a chain, and the one in Chula Vista has the same great burgers and the same great beer, but the sauce isn't on the tray, you have to ask for it, and don't even get us started on them letting Julieta go, which means now you have to bring your own crackers and cherries. Apparently.
Here in the fine state of Texas, we have a Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation. Which, if you click through and see their logo, compels me to give them my very last penny to keep that giant insect from devouring our state.
The TBWEF is hiring, btw. I considered going for a Field Technician job, but it required things like "common sense" and activities like "walking, hiking, climbing, standing, balancing, kneeling, stooping, bending, stretching and reaching in extremely rugged, cotton-field terrain, including walking across ditches and furrows, up and down steep banks, over muddy ground and through loose, shifting sand." I'm pretty sure I'm no good at ANY of that. Also, I would be unable to correctly identify a boll weevil, and instead would eradicate some rare, newly discovered beetle that could cure cancer.
That would suck.
3 of you HAD to say...:
Creepy? Yes. As scary as a scorpion? No. How come they don't have a Scorpion Eradication League? Seems to me that would be a lot more productive than letting probies kill cancer curing boll weevils.
Man, you guys have lots of weird bugs in Texas. I get that it's an ugly bug, but what does it do exactly? It would be sweet if it lit up like a lightening bug. Probably much easier to find it in a field instead of accidently killing the cancer curing one. "Aim for the one that's lit up!"
Sounds like the job description of a photographer too, eh? plus all the lighting and camera and framing ability.
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