moths eat cotton
It eats the 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.
The Bowl Weevil lays its eggs in the cotton bowl and the larvae hatches and eats it before it developes into cotton.
it eats up all the cotton
Destroy the cotton weaving machines - the "Luddites".
Burn it.
Many kinds of insect pests destroy forests by eating the shoots and spreading diseases.
It lays its eggs in the cotton destroying it.
the insect known as the Boll weevil
to destroy plant pests and to increase crop yield
cotton bollworm, pink bollworm, thrips, cotton square borer, cotton aphids, whiteflies, fleahoppers, boll weevils, and many other occasional pests
Wild horses are pests in Australia because they have hard hooves which dig up soil and destroy land. Yet I don't agree that they are pests. Kat.