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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 are the fibers of the cotton boll used for?
What is a cotton boll used 4?
How do they get the cotton from the plants?
Cotton is picked from the shrubs where it grows. The cotton fibre is encased in a hard-shell boll which cracks open when the cotton fibre is fully formed.
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 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.
What machine picks cotton boll?
A cotton cutter or picker
How cotton is extracted from the cotton plant?
Cotton grows ". . .in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants." The boll are picked or plucked from the bush either by hand or by machine.
