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Destructive historical events are often accorded a mythic status, as in musical accounts of devastating floods andbollweevilinfestations.
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Thebollweevil, an insect that destroyed southern cotton plantations from 1895-1905, became a folk hero-like character through the blues.
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Second, the trickster figure can be perceived as the singer's alter ego, as in songs about thebollweeviland similar folk characters.
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Thebollweevilwhich did £40,000,000 damage to the cotton crop in one year has been attacked.
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Why not let thebollweevildo the work that was necessary?
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There are two causes, two pests, which partly account for that, one an insect pest, thebollweevil, and the other a human pest, the financial speculator.
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They had been chiefly sharecroppers and laborers, although some were landowners pushed out by thebollweevildisaster.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It began to recover from 1870 until 1920, by which time thebollweevilhad decimated the cotton crop.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the early 20th century, the spread of thebollweevildevastated many southern cotton crops and turned thousands of workers out of the fields.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Whenbollweevilinfestations and the failure of cotton crops drove farmers to move from rural to urban districts, kudzu plantings were left unattended.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cotton industry benefited from the depredations of thebollweevilfurther west.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fewer pesticide applications enable other insects to survive, including those that naturally prey on thebollweevil.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He subsequently identified several other alternative host plants (including the weevil's likely original host) that have proved critical to the understanding ofbollweevilecology.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On that day vandals ripped thebollweevilout of the statue's hands and permanently damaged the statue.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Severe weather conditions, complicated by an infestation of thebollweevilcaused a steady decline in the population.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cotton farming became even more of an uphill struggle with the onset of the cottonbollweevil.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some of these species cause significant damage, such as thebollweevil, which feeds on cotton buds and flowers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cotton acreage peaked in 1910, but plunged sharply during the 1920s, because of abollweevilinfestation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Victims were the scapegoats for peoples' attempts to control agriculture, labor and education as well as disasters such as thebollweevil.
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