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 known by ...

In the fall of 1917, on a cotton farm in Hearne, Texas, entomologist Ivan Shiller documented the first pink bollworm sighting in the US. The insect, named for the characteristic pink color it develops ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) - The Board of Supervisors tomorrow is slated to approve the Riverside County Office of Agriculture Commissioner's proposed contract with the state to monitor programs ...

AT a recently-held meeting of Farmers Associates Pakistan, many participants from the cotton belt complained of American bollworm attack on crop, and asked the Punjab government to take corrective ...

THE cotton crop is hit by many pests but pink bollworm is its worst enemy which not only causes loss to crop but also affects the lint quality. The economic loss it inflicts is heavier than the impact ...

A ten-year study in northern China shows that large-scale cultivation of cotton plants genetically modified to produce an insecticidal toxin is associated with a reduction in pest populations in ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

MULTAN: Director Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI) Multan warned farmers to get ready with suitable remedies and material against pink bollworm that usually hits cotton in Punjab early due to ...

Vijayawada: The Centre has acknowledged that the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), known as gulabi rangu purugu in Telugu, has developed resistance to Bt cotton, the genetically modified crop ...

Visakhapatnam: The dreaded pest, pink bollworm, that gave nightmares to cotton farmers in the state a decade ago is back in Andhra Pradesh. Farmers in the state’s cotton growing districts like Guntur ...

On August 10, when Sanjay Rathod walked to his lush cotton field in Lasina village in Yavatmal, Maharashtra, he noticed some closed yellow flowers. When he opened them, he found to his horror the tiny ...

Alarmed over the widespread infestation of pink bollworm on cotton crop in the three northern states of India, especially Punjab, a virtual interactive session was organised by Sirsa Regional Station ...