NOUN
- larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
How To Use cotton bollworm In A Sentence
- 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.
- Agriculture professionals applaud the bats, which feed on migratory corn earworm moths (also known as cotton bollworms), America's number-one agricultural pest.
- It in fact is toxic to only a particular group of lepidopteran insects and particularly cotton bollworms.
- 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.
- 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.
- Midwesterners call the insects corn earworms, but farmers elsewhere grumble about cotton bollworms and tomato fruitworms.
