Researchers found that they're sharing resistance traits and evolving rapidly. Researchers issue urgent warning as hybrid ...

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 ...

The agriculture experts urged farmers to strictly implement off-season management practices before sowing early cotton to ...

If there was one phrase to sum up farming in Arkansas at the start of summer, it would be “keep scouting.” Surveillance done by Cooperative Extension Service county agents around the state has found ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cotton is the single largest cash crop of Pakistan. In Sindh cultivation of cotton started before the opening of the Sukkur barrage. During the pre-barrage period up to the year 1932 the cultivation ...

Nagpur: A major attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton, supposed to be resistant to the pest, led to spraying of higher doses of pesticides. The mixture of profefonos and cypermethrin was used leading ...