Consultants and farmers in the lower South often tell us about seeing alligators in their fields, but this is the first time anyone has sent us a video. (Music at the start is the consultant's phone's ringtone. As it happens, I was calling him.)

We posted the video link here...

http://agfax.com/2012/05/16/louisiana-cotton-a-large-pest-video/

You can get some idea about its length as it move across those rows of seedling cotton.