How To Use Bollworm In A Sentence
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We have an emergence of resistance in the bollworm in India, she said.
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Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls, where it is hard to get.
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They are known to eat cabbage moths, bollworms, tomato hornworms and broccoli worms.
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Cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera Hubner) is one of the three major pests in the cotton. Its occurrence and disaster restrict production and scale of Shaanxi cotton district seriously.
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Generally, the ovaries of the flowers and the rinds of the cotton bolls, which are favoured by the bollworm, contained the least amount of toxin, while leaves contained the highest levels.
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Shiva sees the latest news about Bt cotton's inability to combat the bollworm as a ploy by Monsanto to win support for its next generation of Bt cotton "It's like the pesticide treadmill … when you have resistance to [one type of GM seed] you use a more lethal pesticide," she says.
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Agriculture professionals applaud the bats, which feed on migratory corn earworm moths (also known as cotton bollworms), America's number-one agricultural pest.
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Last October, scientists field-tested a cotton pest called the pink bollworm moth, carrying a test gene for a glowing jellyfish protein.
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They are known to eat cabbage moths, bollworms, tomato hornworms and broccoli worms.
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The pink bollworm is a major cotton pest which invades the growing cotton bolls and destroys both the seeds and the cotton fibers.
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Planting resistant cotton varieties , agricultural and chemical control are important measures of integrated management of bollworm.
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In its adult, or moth, stage, the pink bollworm lays its eggs on cotton bolls.
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It in fact is toxic to only a particular group of lepidopteran insects and particularly cotton bollworms.
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Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer.
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My beneficial insects take care of the bollworm, and our killing frosts kill a lot of the insects.
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The role of bioassay method in study of relationship between insect and plant volatile as well as the biological significance of attraction of Pterocarya stenoptera to cotton bollworm were discussed.
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The toxin-enhanced virus would act like a magic insecticide bullet, targeting only cotton bollworms, for example, and leaving bees and other beneficial insects unharmed.
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Midwesterners call the insects corn earworms, but farmers elsewhere grumble about cotton bollworms and tomato fruitworms.
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Reports coming in from four districts of India's Gujarat state indicated that the company's seeds had not been able to prevent a pest called the pink bollworm from attacking cotton crops.
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(From Chittenden, U.S. Department of Agriculture)] = The tomato fruit worm = (Fig. 40) known as the bollworm of cotton and the ear worm of corn, is frequently the cause of serious trouble to tomato growers, especially in the southern states, due to its pernicious habit of eating into and destroying the green and ripening fruit.
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The pink bollworm is a major cotton pest which invades the growing cotton bolls and destroys both the seeds and the cotton fibers.
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It would concentrate bollworms so they could be sprayed.
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At the same time they had reduced pesticide applications from eight sprayings to one spraying, and the single spraying was for a secondary insect pest, not the bollworm that the cotton was now protected against.
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In its adult, or moth, stage, the pink bollworm lays its eggs on cotton bolls.
