This is what Southern farmers have done with weevil-infested cowpea plots for hundreds of years. This insect is only found in the Southeastern United States. “They said, ‘well I’m done with it.

Cowpea is a drought-tolerant legume that grows well in poor soils with a high sand content. However the harvested beans are vulnerable to cowpea weevils, Callosobruchus maculatus, which can multiply ...

By protecting this crucial crop from the dreaded cowpea weevil, farmers are gaining greater economic security. Skip to content Site Navigation. Popular Latest Newsletters.

Recent decades haven’t been so great for the Southern favorite, thanks to a weevil called the cowpea curculio. “It is a very real threat in South Georgia,” said Dr. Stormy Sparks, ...

"Cowpea weevils have an amazing reproductive capacity and can destroy any store of grain many times over in less than a year. A single female cowpea weevil can produce 60 male and female offspring in ...

World Cowpea Research Conference: Crop experts embrace legume prized for protein and resilience to hot, dry climates Date: September 27, 2010 Source: ...

Millions of farmers in West and Central Africa could benefit from a method of storing cowpea, an African staple, after a study provided an important insight into how the method works.