Boll weevil

• " Boll Weevil" is a traditional blues song covered by artists including Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, Buster “Bus” Ezel, Woody Guthrie. It reached #2 on the Billboard chart in 1961 in a recording by Brook Benton.
• The song " Glow Worm" references the insect in Johnny Mercer's lyric "Thou aeronautical boll weevil, illuminate yon woods primeval".
• The boll weevil also appears in the song " Little Sister", sung by Elvis Presley.
• The song " Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter", written by Alline Bullock and covered by Ike and Tina Turner and Nina Simone, references the insect in the lyric "You got a mouth like a herd of Boll Weevils"
• The song " Old Codger" written by The Stranglers and sung by George Melly references the insect in the lyric "I might just turn into a boll weevil and creep upon you with my beef jerky"
• In their self-titled debut album, The Presidents of the United States of America made reference to a wide range of animals including on the track, Boll Weevil. Music critic Michael Sun wrote, "By the time track five, ‘Boll Weevil’, rolls around, there’s been enough cameos from birds, spiders, monkeys, fish, frogs, pigs, and beetles to fill a zoo, all referenced without agenda or coded meaning — just fun, plain and simple."

Television

• In the third season episode, "Night of the Headless Woman" from the 1960s series, The Wild Wild West features boll weevils as the MacGuffin. The villains were trying to smuggle boll weevils into the country to ruin cotton production in the United States.
• In the animated TV show Ben 10, one of the protagonist's transformations is a beetle-like insect named "Ball Weevil".
• In season seven episode six of the TV show Psych, Shawn Spencer pretends to be sent from the "county pest control" to get rid of a Weevil infestation in a warehouse where hostages are being kept.

Sports

• The boll weevil is the mascot for the University of Arkansas at Monticello and is listed on several "silliest" or "weirdest" mascots of all time. It was also the mascot of a short-lived minor league baseball team, the Temple Boll Weevils, which were alternatively called the "Cotton Bugs".