{"id":3382,"date":"2023-02-26T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:35:36","slug":"what-is-the-pink-bollworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-pink-bollworm\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Pink Bollworm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pink Bollworm:<\/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<\/strong> <strong>in<\/strong> nearly <strong>all the cotton-growing countries<\/strong> of the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Description<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>adults are small moths<\/strong> about <strong>3\/8 inch long<\/strong> and <strong>are dark brown<\/strong> with <strong>markings on the fore wing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>larval stage is the destructive<\/strong> and identifiable stage.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>larvae have distinctive pink bands<\/strong> and can reach a length of \u00bd inches right before they pupate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecological Threat:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pink bollworms are <strong>major pests of cotton<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adults only last for 2 weeks<\/strong>, but <strong>females will lay 200<\/strong> or more <strong>eggs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adults lay eggs on cotton bolls<\/strong>; once hatched, <strong>the larvae eat the seeds<\/strong> and <strong>damage the fibers of the cotton<\/strong>, <strong>reducing the yield and quality<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When the <strong>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1)\u00a0What is the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC)?<\/p>\n<p>The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) functions in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&amp;CC). As per Rules, 1989, it is responsible for appraisal of activities involving large scale use of hazardous microorganisms and recombinants in research and industrial production from the environmental angle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/krishijagran.com\/news\/pink-bollworm-resistant-gm-cotton-gets-nod-for-field-trials-in-hisar-haryana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Pink Bollworm-Resistant GM Cotton Gets Nod for Field Trials in Hisar, Haryana<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Bollworm is one of the most destructive pests of cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3382","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\/3382","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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}