{"id":12394,"date":"2023-06-23T02:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2025-03-30T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:39:04","slug":"what-is-pink-ballworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-pink-ballworm\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Pink Ballworm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pink Ballworm:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>most destructive pests of cotton<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific name: <\/strong><i><strong>Pectinophora gossypiella<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: Originally <strong>native to India<\/strong>, it is now <strong>recorded in nearly all the cotton-growing countries of the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Description<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>adults are small moths about 3\/8 inch long and are dark brown<\/strong> with markings on the fore wing.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>larval stage is the destructive <\/strong>and identifiable stage.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>larvae have distinctive pink bands and can reach a length of \u00bd inches<\/strong> right before they pupate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecological Threat:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Pink bollworms are <strong>major pests of cotton.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adults only last for 2 weeks, but females will lay 200 or more eggs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adults lay eggs on cotton bolls<\/strong>; once hatched, the <strong>larvae eat the seeds and damage the fibers of the cotton<\/strong>, reducing the yield and quality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When the larvae mature, they cut out the boll <\/strong>and drop to the ground and cocoon near the soil surface.\u00a0]<\/li>\n<li>It has also been observed to <strong>attack hibiscus, okra, and hollyhock plants<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Pectinophora?<\/h3>\n<p>Pectinophora is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Perhaps the best known species is the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders). P. gossypiella is one of the world&#8217;s most destructive insect pests that causes terrible damage to cotton balls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/chandigarh\/deadly-pink-bollworm-creeps-into-bathinda-mansa-fields-experts-recommend-sprays-8679239\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>Deadly pink bollworm creeps into Bathinda, Mansa fields; experts recommend sprays<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Ballworm is one of the most destructive pests of cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}