Bollworm
title: "Bollworm" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["lepidoptera-and-humans", "agricultural-pest-insects", "former-disambiguation-pages-converted-to-set-index-articles"] topic_path: "general/lepidoptera-and-humans" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollworm" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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Bollworm is the common term for a moth larva that attacks the fruiting bodies of certain crops, especially cotton. The most common moths known as bollworms are:
- Red or Sudan bollworm, Diparopsis castanea
- Rough bollworm, Earias perhuegeli
- Spotted bollworm, Earias fabia
- Spiny bollworm, Earias insulana
- Spotted bollworm, Earias vittella
- American cotton bollworm or tomato grub, Helicoverpa armigera
- Cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa gelotopoeon
- Cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa punctigera
- Corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea
- Tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens
- Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella
- Pinkspotted bollworm, Pectinophora scutigera
--== See also ==
- Cotton bollworm
- Boll weevil, the beetle Anthonomus grandis
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