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They chew through the cotton lint to feed on the seeds. Since cotton is used for both fiber and seed oil, the damage is twofold. Their disruption of the protective tissue around the boll is a portal of entry for other insects and fungi. The pink bollworm is native to Asia, but has become an invasive species in most of the world's cotton-growing ...
Oxycarenus laetus is a polyphagous insect, feeding on the seeds of a number of plants in the Malvaceae family. As well as being a pest of cotton (Gossypium spp.) crops, this insect is found on Abutilon indicum (Indian mallow), Sida acuta (common wireweed) and Thespesia populnea (portia tree). On these plants, populations are at their highest ...
The adult insect is slender, about 1 to 1.5 cm (0.4 to 0.6 in) long, with a red thorax and dark brown wings marked with a yellow cross. It is native to the southeast of the United States, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. It is a pest of cotton crops and other plants, the adults and older nymphs feeding on the emerging bolls and the ripening seeds. [1]
The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a species of beetle in the family Curculionidae.The boll weevil feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central Mexico, [1] it migrated into the United States from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry and the people working in the American South.
Bollworm is the common term for a moth larva that attacks the fruiting bodies of certain crops, especially cotton. The most common moths known as bollworms are: Red or Sudan bollworm, Diparopsis castanea; Rough bollworm, Earias perhuegeli; Spotted bollworm, Earias fabia; Spiny bollworm, Earias insulana; Spotted bollworm, Earias vittella
Spodoptera litura, otherwise known as the tobacco cutworm or cotton leafworm, is a nocturnal moth in the family Noctuidae. S. litura is a serious polyphagous pest in Asia, Oceania, and the Indian subcontinent that was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. [1] Its common names reference two of the most frequent host plants of the ...
Alabama argillacea, the cotton leafworm or cotton worm, [1] [2] is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is native to the New World , but has been extirpated from the United States and Canada , having not been recorded since 1998. [ 3 ]
Aphis gossypii is a tiny insect, an aphid ("greenfly") in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants. It is a widely distributed pest of a variety of agricultural crops in the families Cucurbitaceae, Rutaceae and Malvaceae. [2] Common names include cotton aphid, melon aphid and melon and cotton ...