Pest & Disease Control for your Crop
Pink bollworm
Cotton
Symptoms
- The caterpillars feed on flower buds, flowers and bore into bolls.
- When they bore into flower buds, they feed on developing anther and style and occasionally on ovary. When they are found in flowers, the flowers do not open and give rosette appearance.
- The young bolls when attacked, bolls shed after a few days, but the larger bolls remain on the plant.
- Seeds are destroyed and lint gets stained.
- The aperture through which they make their entry into the boll is closed and it becomes difficult to differentiate between a healthy and infested boll.
Preventive Measures
Use pheromone trap @ 5/Ac to monitor the adult moth activity. Dispose off the crop residues as soon as harvest is over.
Control Measures
Mix in 200 liters of water and spray.
Or
Mix in 200 liters of water and spray.
Or
Mix in 200 liters of water and spray.
Or
Description
- After the square and boll formation, the infestation is noticed on these parts also. Yield loss due to this pest is 20 to 40 % In cotton seed yield.