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.

The pink bollworm, which is native to Asia, is thought to have hitched a ride into the US via seeds coming from Mexico, and into Mexico via seeds imported from Egypt around 1911. 1 The US government ...

The old world bollworm (OWB) is a pest that causes billions in damages to agriculture around the world annually, and it isn't a question of if it will come to the U.S. mainland but when.

Thanks to the ingenuity of Arizona farmers and scientists using environmentally-friendly methods, U.S.-grown cotton is free of its major non-native pest, the pink bollworm. The victory in the more ...

So Long, Pink Bollworm . By Sonja Begemann December 18, 2018 After years of work, including control and regulatory measures, pink bollworm has been eliminated from cotton-producing states. This ...

From the Agriculture Department last week came an alarming note. The pink bollworm, “the most threatening insect pest of American cotton,” is doing more damage “to the 1952 cotton crop ...

Old World bollworm could pose serious threat to more than cotton and corn. by Steve Byrns, Texas A&M University. A New World corn earworm also known as the cotton bollworm, dines on an ear of ...

Bt crops brought a two-fold benefit: Cotton and corn farmers didn't need to use so many chemicals to control the bollworm and related pests after they were released, starting in 1996. "Our ...

If there was one phrase to sum up farming in Arkansas at the start of summer, it would be “keep scouting.” Surveillance done by Cooperative Extension Service county agents around the state has ...

Pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella-Saunders) is an important pest of cotton throughout the world, though it is more serious in Asia and Africa than in America.

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Cotton is the single largest cash crop of Pakistan. In Sindh cultivation of cotton started before the opening of the Sukkur barrage. During the pre-barrage period up to the year 1932 the ...