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Symptom of damage
Drying and drooping of terminal shoots during pre-flowering stage.
Shedding of squares and young bolls.
Flaring up of bracts during square and young boll formation stage.
Holes on bolls and rotting of bolls.
Symptoms of damage
Feeding injury to all fruiting structures with circular bore holes.
Larvae seen feeding by thrusting their heads inside and leaving the rest of the body outside.
Presence of granular faecal pellets outside the bore holes.
A single larva can damage 30-40 fruiting parts (square, flower, small and full bolls) .
Symptoms of damage
Larvae during feeding fold flower petals to form rosetted flower.
Feed inside on stamen and ovary of flower.
Bore small bolls and holes of entry plugged by excreta of larvae (unidentified boll damage).
The attacked flowers and immature bolls drop off.
Cut developing lint inside boll to reach seeds for feeding.
They cut window holes (interlocular burrowing) and adjoin seeds forming "double seeds /winter sleep.
Discolored lint and burrowed seeds.
Rosette flower Feeding inside flower Feeding inside boll unopened/tight bolls
Gregarious feeding Larva feeding fruiting square Feeding on fruiting part skeleton of leaf veins
Spodoptera exigua