Identification Symptoms
- Shedding of squares and young bolls
- Flaring up of bracts during square and young boll
formation stage
- Holes on bolls and rotting of bolls
- Presence of wilting, withering and drooping or
drying of tender shoots in early stage of crop growth.
- Presence of bored flower buds (squares), bored
bolls with larval frass at the entrance holes
- Premature dropping of affected bolls
- Premature opening of damaged bolls, which remain
on plants.
- Presence of badly damaged
tissues including lint and seed in damaged bolls.