#bollworm

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Today, on bugs I saw!

Google says this is a Cotton Bollworm, or a similar species. What do you think, Buglr?

Finding this guy on my inch plant brightened my evening! I've never seen a caterpillar chomp on my inchplant before.

This little guy was memorable. It regurgitated onto the leaf I tried to get it to crawl onto (I think that's what it was doing - or the inchplant wasn't agreeing with it) and when my mom finally moved them to the lemon balm, she says it pinched him.

[drhoz]

#3112 - Helicoverpa armigera conferta - Cotton Bollworm Moth

AKA Chloridea armigera, Chloridea obsoleta, Helicoverpa commoni and obsoleta Heliothis armigera, Heliothis conferta, Heliothis fusca, Heliothis pulverosa, Heliothis rama, Heliothis uniformis, Noctua armigera and Noctua barbara, corn earworm, Old World (African) bollworm, and scarce bordered straw in the UK, where the subspecies H. a armigera is an occasional vagrant.

Helicoverpa armigera armigera is native and widespread in central and southern Europe, temperate Asia and Africa, and recently Brazil - H. a. conferta is native to Australia and Oceania. Both subspecies are ruinous agricultural pests, with extremely wide diets, and have evolved resistance to many pesticides and genetically engineered crops.

The female can lay several hundred eggs, and under favourable conditions, the lifecycle can be complete in just over a month. As well as eating all those crops, the caterpillars are rather aggressive, occasionally carnivorous and may cannibalise each other.

Various places around Perth - we didn't see any on the Wongan Hills trip but no doubt they were around.

[tobbogan-13]

doing an assignment on biotechnology and GMO and shit in textiles and how it's improved and stuff but

hes just a little guy

i dint wanna kill him

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‘Not responsible for Pink Bollworm attack’

‘Not responsible for Pink Bollworm attack’

In a separate representation to the joint secretary, seeds, Union ministry of agriculture, the Association sought clarity on the sole responsibility of the trait developer for the efficacy of the trait.

The National Seed Association of India (NSAI) has approached Radha Mohan Singh, Union minister of agriculture after the Maharashtra agriculture department issued notices to seed companies…

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बोण्डअळीग्रस्त शेतकऱ्याना 3400 कोटींची मदत मुंबई : राज्य सरकारने बोंडअळी आणि तुडतुडे या रोगाने पिकांचे  नुकसान झालेल्या शेतकऱ्यांना 3 हजार 400 कोटींची मदत जाहीर केली.यंदाच्या खरीप हंगामात बोंडअळी आणि तुडतुडे रोगाने मोठ्या प्रमाणात शेतीचं नुकसान झालं आहे, त्यामुळे शेतकऱ्यांना सरकारने मदतीचा हात दिला आहे. शेतकऱ्याना 3 हजार 400 कोटींची देण्याबाबातचा शासन निर्णय प्रसिद्ध केला आहे. तीन समान हप्त्यात ही मदत केली जाणार आहे. सप्टेंबर महिन्यात कापसाला बोंड अळी लागल्याने शेतकऱ्यांना मोठा फटका बसला होता. त्यातच विषारी किटक नाशक फवारणीमुळे सुमारे 30 पेक्षा जास्त शेतकरी आणि शेतमजुरांचा मृत्यू झाला होता. धान पिकालाही तुडतुडे रोगाचा प्रादुर्भाव झाला होता, त्यामुळे विदर्भातील शेतक-यांना मोठा फटका बसला होता. विरोधकांनी हा मुद्दा लावून धरत, नुकसान भरपाईची मागणी केली होती. कापूस किंवा धानाचे 33 टक्क्यांपेक्षा जास्त नुकसान झालेल्या शेतकऱ्यांना ही मदत थेट त्यांच्या बँक खात्यात जमा होणार आहे.

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Researchers Have Found A Pest Gene Which Can Help Fight Pesticide Contamination In The Environment

Persistent use of chemical pesticides to increase crop productivity has led to their accumulation in soil, water, and even food. Now a group of researchers from Pune have isolated an enzyme from a pest and found that it can be used to clean up pesticide residues from food and environment.

Image Ms. Chaitali Labade (Top left), Dr. Vaijayanti Tamhane (Top right), Mr. Abhilash Jadhav (Bottom left),…

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