Pink/Spotted Bollworm of Cotton-Damage

Adult of Spotted Bollworm

Spotted Bollworm larva causing Damage

Cotton Spotted Bollworm

Pink Bollworm of Cotton Crop

A bollworm is a common term for any larva of a moth that attacks the fruiting bodies of certain crops, especially cotton. The most common moths known as bollworms are:

• Red or Sudan Bollworm: Diaparopsis
• Rough Bollworm: Earias perhuegeli
• Spotted Bollworm: Earias fabia
• Spiny Bollworm: Earias insulana
• Spotted Bollworm: Earias vittella
• American Cotton Bollworm or Tomato Grub: Helicoverpa armigera
• Cotton Bollworm: Helicoverpa gelotopoeon
• Cotton Bollworm: Helicoverpa punctigera
• Corn Earworm: Helicoverpa zea
• Tobacco Budworm: Heliothis virescens
• Pink Bollworm: Pectinophora gossypiella
• Pink Spotted Bollworm: Pectinophora scutigera

Control:: Coragen (Dupont product), Tracer (Dow Agrosciences), Fame (bayer Crop Sciences), Takumi (Rallis India Ltd) at specified Dozes of CIB and Company lables.