A small, grayish, long-snouted beetle (Anthonomus grandis) of Mexico and the southern United States, having adults that puncture cotton buds and larvae that hatch in and damage cotton bolls.
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some worms and caterpillars cause damage to cotton plants like the tobacco budworm and bollworm even army worms and cutworms, cotton fleahopper, aphids there are some others but they cause less damage like stinkbugs, ants, lady beetles, damsel bugs, assassin bugs even some spiders and mites
A variety of biotic factors such as pests, nematodes, diseases, etc. can reduce the net crop production. A pest causes damage to agriculture by feeding on crops. For example, the boll weevil is a pest on cotton. It attacks the cotton crop, thereby reducing its yield. Weeds also reduce crop productivity by competing with the main crop for nutrients, light, and space. Similarly, abiotic factors such as salinity, temperature, etc. affect the net crop production. Some natural calamities such as droughts and floods are unpredictable. Their occurrence has a great impact on crops sometimes, destroying the entire crop.
Boll weevils are native to Central America and migrated to the United States in the late 19th century. They were accidentally introduced to the United States through imported cotton from Mexico.
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Boll weevil
cotton
boll weevil
It eats the cotton.
it eats up all the cotton
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.
Alabama's main crop is cotton (before the boll weevil came in)
It lays its eggs in the cotton destroying it.
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.
can a boll weevil fly
a boll weevil is a type of bug
The Boll Weevil is found in Texas and Mexico.