Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several moth caterpillars that feed on cotton bolls, especially the pink bollworm and the corn earworm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The larva or caterpillar of a lepidopterous insect of the family Noctuidæ, Heliothis armigera, very destructive in some seasons to the cotton-crop on account of its attacks on the bolls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The larva of a moth (
Heliothis armigera ) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
larvae of any of various species ofmoth that arepests to someagricultural crops
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls
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Examples
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(From Chittenden, U.S. Department of Agriculture)] = The tomato fruit worm = (Fig. 40) known as the bollworm of cotton and the ear worm of corn, is frequently the cause of serious trouble to tomato growers, especially in the southern states, due to its pernicious habit of eating into and destroying the green and ripening fruit.
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Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer.
Brendan Smith: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers Brendan Smith 2010
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Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer.
Brendan Smith: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers Brendan Smith 2010
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Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer.
Brendan Smith: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers Brendan Smith 2010
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We have an emergence of resistance in the bollworm in India, she said.
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Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer.
Brendan Smith: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers Brendan Smith 2010
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Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer.
Brendan Smith: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers Brendan Smith 2010
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We have an emergence of resistance in the bollworm in India, she said.
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Shiva sees the latest news about Bt cotton's inability to combat the bollworm as a ploy by Monsanto to win support for its next generation of Bt cotton "It's like the pesticide treadmill … when you have resistance to [one type of GM seed] you use a more lethal pesticide," she says.
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Reports coming in from four districts of India's Gujarat state indicated that the company's seeds had not been able to prevent a pest called the pink bollworm from attacking cotton crops.
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