bollworm
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bollworm
Example Sentences
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Department of Agriculture is seeking to enlist such techniques to eradicate an invasive diamondback moth in New York, which eats vegetable crops, and a cotton-munching pink bollworm in Arizona.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
Mexican free-tailed bats eat cotton bollworm moths in Texas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
Even when you dropped the bollworm larvae into a bucket of poison, farmers said, they kept swimming.
From Reuters ● Dec. 8, 2017
The first genetically modified row crops of any kind—herbicide-resistant soybeans and cotton protected against the bollworm and other pests—were introduced only in 1995.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2016
One of the most destructive enemies of cotton is the bollworm.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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