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Directions: Write the epitaph (a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person) like you would find on a gravestone for a boll weevil. Be creative. Yes, I know we wouldn't technically bury a bug, but show your creativity by making sure that you relay what this insect did to Georgia's economy during the Great Depression. You may earn 3 points if you make it artistic.
Your epitaph should follow this model: Example provided as a joke to commemorate common sense.
Here Lies....
Born...
Died...
Husband/wife of.... Father/Mother/brother/son of...
Famous for...
Remembered for...
Two pictures that represent the insect.
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Here Lies...
Anthonomus grandis — the Boll Weevil
Born...
In the warm fields of Mexico; crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. (1892); reached Georgia by the 1910s.
Died...
Spiritually defeated by human resolve and eradication campaigns in the late 20th century — its work still remembered.
Husband/wife of...
The cotton plant — a relentless partner no farmer wanted.
Father/Mother/brother/son of...
Fallow furrows, ruined pickings, hungry families, and the migrations that emptied country porches and filled city streets.
Famous for...
Devouring cotton bolls and turning Georgia’s cotton belt into a symbol of economic collapse during the Great Depression — collapsing local incomes, wrecking sharecroppers’ livelihoods, and hastening a crisis already deep with dust and debt.
Remembered for...
How small jaws altered history: forcing diversification from mono-crop cotton to peanuts, timber, and tobacco; accelerating rural-to-urban migration; shaping relief efforts and New Deal responses; and teaching a hard lesson about resilience, change, and the cost of dependence on a single crop.
A short epitaph poem:
Tiny mandibles, mighty ruin —
You ate more than fiber; you ate a way of life.
From ruined rows rose new crops and new towns;
From your bite, Georgia learned to change.
Two pictures that represent the insect:
1) A simple beetle sketch
,_ _
( `---' )
`-._,-'
(o o)
\_/
2) A cotton boll bitten and bare
( ) ( ) ( )
\ \/ / ☼
\ / / \
\/ / \
|| / \
(__) (__)
Anthonomus grandis — the Boll Weevil
Born...
In the warm fields of Mexico; crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. (1892); reached Georgia by the 1910s.
Died...
Spiritually defeated by human resolve and eradication campaigns in the late 20th century — its work still remembered.
Husband/wife of...
The cotton plant — a relentless partner no farmer wanted.
Father/Mother/brother/son of...
Fallow furrows, ruined pickings, hungry families, and the migrations that emptied country porches and filled city streets.
Famous for...
Devouring cotton bolls and turning Georgia’s cotton belt into a symbol of economic collapse during the Great Depression — collapsing local incomes, wrecking sharecroppers’ livelihoods, and hastening a crisis already deep with dust and debt.
Remembered for...
How small jaws altered history: forcing diversification from mono-crop cotton to peanuts, timber, and tobacco; accelerating rural-to-urban migration; shaping relief efforts and New Deal responses; and teaching a hard lesson about resilience, change, and the cost of dependence on a single crop.
A short epitaph poem:
Tiny mandibles, mighty ruin —
You ate more than fiber; you ate a way of life.
From ruined rows rose new crops and new towns;
From your bite, Georgia learned to change.
Two pictures that represent the insect:
1) A simple beetle sketch
,_ _
( `---' )
`-._,-'
(o o)
\_/
2) A cotton boll bitten and bare
( ) ( ) ( )
\ \/ / ☼
\ / / \
\/ / \
|| / \
(__) (__)
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