The invasive pink bollworm once devastated the cotton industry in Arizona, but a genetically modified seed helped rid the state of the pest.

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

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. Also ...

Surveillance done by Cooperative Extension Service county agents around the state has found bollworm numbers up compared to 2021.

Some of the first GMOs – corn and cotton plants that have been genetically modified to fend off insects – are running into problems. Bugs have become resistant to them because they've been ...

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.

But the rest of the world calls it the New World bollworm to differentiate it from its relative the Old World bollworm, arguably a much more ominous threat.

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 ...

After years of work, including control and regulatory measures, pink bollworm has been eliminated from cotton-producing states. This success lifts a long-standing domestic quarantine for pink ...

“These bollworm numbers have exploded it seems in the past two or three weeks,” said John David Farabough, Desha County extension agent for the University of Arkansas System Division of ...

Besides, with a view to stopping emergence of pink bollworm moths from the infested seeds/refuge its burning should be made mandatory prior to January in all the ginning factories of Upper Sindh.

Farm Distress Pink bollworm pests reach Maharashtra’s Yavatmal early this year, adding to farmers’ distress Multiple measures like pheromone and light traps, multi-cropping and changing ...