bollworm
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- noun
- /ˈbɔlˌwɜrm/
- Specialized
:
gusano del algodón
- They harvested the early cotton before populations of pink bollworms had a chance to build up to troublesome levels.
- cotton bollworm
- pink bollworm
- bollworm and budworm
Examples
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Similarly, on farms throughout China, farmers have been growing a cotton plant that is engineered to be resistant to the destructive pest cotton bollworm.
Academic text (2012) -
However, a leading entomologist argued that the bollworm is less sensitive to the Bt toxin than are other pests, "so it is misleading to use this cotton in a high-dose/refuge approach."
Academic text (1999) -
This year, they expect to spray four or five times, primarily to control the bollworm.
Academic text (1994) -
Analysis has shown that these resistant cotton plants will even control the bollworm on nearby non-engineered plants.
Academic text (2012) -
They feed on pests like the cotton bollworm, beet armyworm, and aphids.
Academic text (1994) -
However, cotton treated with spinosad had fewer damaging bollworm and budworm larvae than plots treated with the other pesticides," Esquivel says.
Academic text (2000) -
Also known as the corn earworm, cotton bollworm, soybean podworm, or tomato fruitworm, it costs U.S. farmers nearly $1 billion annually in crop losses and control expenses.
Academic text (1995) -
In fact, like its "partners in crime"—tobacco budworm and cotton bollworm—it was recently added to the list of cotton pests that are showing resistance to insecticides.
Academic text (1999) -
Genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) were added to cotton, making the plant produce a protein toxic to several major cotton pests, including pink bollworm, tobacco budworm, and bollworm.
Academic text (2004) -
Farmers often struggle with bollworm infestations, as these caterpillars can damage entire cotton crops.
Synonyms
A caterpillar that eats and damages crops like cotton and corn
A small caterpillar that eats seeds inside cotton bolls and damages cotton plants
A caterpillar that eats and damages corn and other crop plants
A small caterpillar that eats crops like cotton, corn, and tomatoes
A caterpillar that eats and destroys crops like corn or tomatoes
Compounds
- Specialized
A small caterpillar that eats seeds inside cotton bolls and damages cotton plants
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bollworm is a simple compound of boll and worm, where boll means a plant's round seed pod (think of a 'ball') and worm means a 'young caterpillar'. So a bollworm is literally a caterpillar that eats the round seed pods of cotton and similar plants, which is why it destroys cotton bolls.