This past weekend I was driving through a couple of million cotton fields in southeastern Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi and noticed something I haven’t seen before. Near the edge of nearly all of the cotton fields, placed about every 100 yards or so were these clear/chartreuse bottles on stands about 3 feet high. Can anybody tell me the purpose of these? I am guessing that they are for some sort of pest control specific to cotton as I didn’t see any near the corn, rice, or bean fields.
Probably boll weevil traps.
http://www.uark.edu/~dabney/trap.html
That is exactly what I saw. Thanks!