Our main chemicals fan reports some success with a chemical
pesticide.
        If chemical control of the boll weevil is as successful as he makes
out, this could be a commercial difficulty for those corporations trying to
work up a systemic insecticide in cotton by gene-tampering!  (BTW, cotton
linters are in principle edible and are indeed used in some mfd foods.)
         I had not said synthetic pesticides *never* work.  To cite one
case of apparent efficacy is hardly to comment at all on the fact that
there have been many flops which is the point I was registering (not
conceded by the chemofan, but well documented and indeed notorious amongst
ecologists).

R