The pink bollworm pest destroyed cotton crops in the US for a century. A collaborative biotechnology program helped stamp it ...

Pink bollworm caterpillars eat the seeds of cotton plants and damage cotton fibers, and in the 1990s and early 2000s, they were a big problem in Arizona. “The damage was devastating," Ollerton said.

then turns pink. The cooler your garden is, the longer before your plants will start blooming. Besides fertility, moisture, and sun, cotton depends on heat. Sunny days are not always hot days.

Tabashnik and his team targeted caterpillars of the pink bollworm as the enemy. These insects, which were first discovered in 1917, are one of the top destroyers of cotton plants worldwide. To remedy ...

THE cotton crop is hit by many pests but pink bollworm is its worst enemy which ... A week old infested boll remains attached to the plant and dries up. If the boll is attacked when it is half ...

Nagpur: Cotton grower Ankush Mote from Adasa village in Kalmeshwar tehsil didn’t use any spraying to protect his crop from pink bollworm ... every alternate cotton plant spread over 300 acres ...

while a legend that the plant soaked up the blood of fallen confederate soldiers accounts for its other common name. There are several cultivars of cotton rose. Rubus has deep pink flowers ...

The cotton-candy pink flowers are frequently described as ... If not irrigated, the plant may drop some leaves in the summer. After pollination, the plant produces small pods with seeds ...

The cotton crop was cultivated in eight lakh acres in the old Adilabad district and in three lakhs acres in the new Adilabad district. ADILABAD: Pink bollworm has resurfaced much earlier this year ...