You can do everything right early in the season to establish a strong cotton crop, but cotton bollworm pressure in July and ...

Early corn earworm damage is evident on the leaf of a cotton plant (at left), and a sample of B. Bassiana, a parasitic fungus that attacks insects, is prepared for ...

A collaboration between the University of Arizona, cotton growers, and government and industry partners eradicated the pink bollworm -- one of the world's most damaging crop pests -- from the United ...

Scientists have discovered how insect pests resist cotton plants engineered to kill them. The findings will help scientists design more durable strategies for pest management. Based on laboratory ...

In the most recent battle in the unending war between farmers and bugs, the bugs are biting back by adapting to crops genetically engineered to kill them. A new study published in the Proceedings of ...

Researchers report the effects of land use, transgenic cotton, and weather on cotton pests in China. China is one of the world's largest pesticide consumers, with cotton being the most heavily treated ...

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

Photography by Soff Garavano Puw (@soff_garavano) It arrived in Florida in late 2024, and the whole ecosystem changed. An invasive insect from South Asia, the two-spot cotton leafhopper is now causing ...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/pest-resistance-increasing-in-bt-cotton-minister/article70614596.ece Copy Pest resistance has been ...