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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.
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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 is the machines called that that picks the cotton boll?
Cotton gins. Actually, it is called a cotton picker
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.
What are the fibers of the cotton boll used for?
What is a cotton boll used 4?
What is a cotton ball?
A cotton boll is the locks of fluff that grows cotton plant on it. then it is picked and used to make different pieces of clothes such as jeans or t-shirts...etc.
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 was hard to remove from the cotton boll?
The cotton! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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 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.
How did the Boll Weevil get its name?
The boll weevil got it's name because it is a weevil, which is a type of beetle. It is called a boll weevil because it eats the bolls of young cotton plants along with the buds.
What is an example sentence for boll weevil?
The boll weevil ruined the cotton crops.
An insect that destroys cotton crops?
The Boll Weevil
