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In 1969 severely infested areas of Warren County participated in an experiment designed to relieve some of the thistle control problems. Released in these areas was the thistle weevil, a strange little bug who is hungry only for the thistle bracts and heads. To insure that the weevil would not turn out to be a curse in disguise, agriculture officials isolated the weevil imported from France, to insure that it did, indeed, feed only on thistles and posed no threat to other crops.
The Rappahanndck News followed the progress of the Warren County experiment with an article in July, 1978. At that time Warren Extension Agent Gary DeOms reported that within the three years following the first release it was hard to find over a couple of hundred thistles on the entire 50-acre tract.
Former Rappahannock Extension Agent Rap Owings got some weevils from across th</ mountain and released them here. He said then th^t the areas chosen for release were infested
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