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Pink Bollworm was in the news recently, it is harmful for which of the following crops ?

Pink Bollworm was in the news recently, it is harmful for which of the following crops ? Correct Answer Cotton

The correct answer is Cotton.

​Key Points

  • The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella; Spanish: lagarta rosada) is an insect known for being a pest in cotton farming.
    • The adult is a small, thin, gray moth with fringed wings.
    • The larva is a dull white caterpillar with eight pairs of legs with conspicuous pink banding along its dorsum.
    • The larva reaches one-half inch in length.
    • The pink bollworm is native to Asia but has become an invasive species in most of the world's cotton-growing regions.
    • It reached the cotton belt in the southern United States by the 1920s.
    • It is a major pest in the cotton fields of the southern California deserts.

​Additional Information

  • Pink bollworm
    • Kingdom: Animalia
    • Phylum: Arthropoda
    • Class: Insecta
    • Order: Lepidoptera
    • Family: Gelechiidae
    • Genus: Pectinophora
    • Species: P. gossypiella
    • Binomial name: Pectinophora gossypiella

Important Points

  • In parts of India, the pink bollworm is now resistant to first-generation transgenic Bt cotton (Bollgard cotton) that expresses a single Bt gene (Cry1Ac).

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