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you can harvest cotton bolls by hand or by machines like this one
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What three things are made of cotton?
A cotton shirt, cotton pants, and a cotton hat.
What Material is used to make a cotton swab?
to make a cotton swab, you need a cotton plant to produce cotton.
What machine removed the cotton seeds from the cotton fiber quickly and easily?
Cotton Gin.
What does CVC stands for as far as Fabric is concern?
Chief Value Cotton (Cotton more than 50% )Cotton 52% Polyester 48%Cotton 65% Polyester 35%Cotton 70% Polyester 30%Cotton 80% Polyester 20%
What is a cotton gin made out of?
cotton plant
What are seeds of the cotton boll used for?
to make condensed oil and to grow more cotton for the next harvest.
What are the fibers of the cotton boll used for?
What is a cotton boll used 4?
Is it called a cotton boll or ball?
It is known as a cotton ball with an "a" in ball. However, while still on the plant, is called a cotton boll, as in "boll weevil," an important pest of cotton before the advent of insecticides. After the plant blooms and gets pollinated ("squaring"), the flower closes up and produces its seeds surrounded by tough fibers to protect the seeds. It is these fibers that humans harvest and transform into cotton fabric.
How does boll weevil destroy the cotton plant?
The boll weevil has this big snout and it uses it to bite the top of the cotton plant. Then it licks out the cotton until it has no more cotton inside the ball. The boll weevil larvae and pupal do the same thing but they have to get help from the adult boll weevil to eat the top og the cotton plant.
How is a boll weevil destroy cotton?
They eat the buds off the cotton plants. The boll weevil does not destroy the cotton plant directly, it destroys the boll wherein grows the cotton and its seeds.
What is the seed pod of cotton called?
The seed of cotton is called 'cotton seed'.The pod that contains the cotton seed and the cotton fiber is called a 'boll'.
What does boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
What was hard to remove from the cotton boll?
The cotton! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What is the difference in cotton-picking and cotton pulling?
Cotton picking is pulling the soft cotton out of the hard boll that has opened when the cotton is ready to be harvested. Cotton pulling is harvesting the cotton by pulling the entire opened boll, with the cotton in it.
What is an example sentence for boll weevil?
The boll weevil ruined the cotton crops.
An insect that destroys cotton crops?
The Boll Weevil
How does the boll of weevil destroy the cotton plant?
It eats the cotton.
