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  2. Pink bollworm - Wikipedia

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    The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella; Spanish: lagarta rosada) is an insect known for being a pest in cotton farming. The adult is a small, thin, gray moth with fringed wings. The larva is a dull white caterpillar with eight pairs of legs [1] with conspicuous pink banding along its dorsum. The larva reaches one half inch in length.

  3. Pectinophora - Wikipedia

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    Pectinophora is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae.Perhaps the best known species is the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders). P. gossypiella is one of the world's most destructive insect pests that causes terrible damage to cotton bolls.

  4. Pectinophora scutigera - Wikipedia

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    Pectinophora scutigera, the Queensland pink bollworm or pinkspotted bollworm, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Holdaway in 1926 from Australia, where it occurs in coastal and central Queensland. It has also been recorded from Hawaii, New Guinea, Micronesia and New Caledonia. [1]

  5. Cotton bollworm - Wikipedia

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    Diparopsis castanea, red bollworm: central-southern Africa; Earias insulana, spiny bollworm: Africa; Helicoverpa zea, the American bollworm or tomato grub; Helicoverpa armigera, the Old World bollworm; Pectinophora gossypiella, pink bollworm: Africa; Pectinophora scutigera, pink-spotted bollworm: Australia

  6. Bollworm - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Bt cotton - Wikipedia

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    The hypothesis was that sterile males mating with the few surviving females, who had developed resistance, would lead to a decrease in pests in the following generation. There was a dramatic reduction in pink bollworms, with only two pink bollworm larvae being found by the third year of the study. [17]

  8. Bureau of Entomology - Wikipedia

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    In November, 1916, the occurrence of the pink bollworm in the Laguna district of Coahuila, Mexico, within 200 miles (322 km) of the Texas border, was discovered, and an embargo was placed upon the importation of Mexican cotton. Infestations were found in several counties in Texas and Louisiana.

  9. Maurice Lukefahr - Wikipedia

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    In 1953, Lukefahr began a long career as a research scientist with the Agriculture Research Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.Based primarily at the Brownsville, Texas cotton research station, in 1956 he was the first researcher to identify an alternative host of the boll weevil: Thespesia populnea, an ornamental plant popular in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of ...