Pectinophora gossypiella
Bomuldsmè¸l
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- pest insect
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Pectinophora
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Lepidoptera | Gelechiidae | Pectinophora
External: GBIF #5121979
11 AI-consensus-verified claims across 2 interaction categories.
Related entities
Top entities sharing the most verified claims with Pectinophora gossypiella.
herbivory 7 claims
- This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella)”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“particularly important in reducing infestations of the pink bollworm”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“have been used successfully against the pink bollworm in cotton”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“larvae feed in the bolls on lint, carpel tissues, and seeds”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“invading populations of the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella, in California cotton”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of herbivory on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“key insect pests of cotton in the West include the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed
pest pressure 4 claims
- This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“Pectinophora gossypiella is a major pest in almost all of the cotton growing areas of the world”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“Helicoverpa armigera, Earias vittelli and Pectinophora gossypiella in cotton”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“pink bollworm is a major pest in almost all cotton growing areas”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Gossypium hirsutum (American cotton) · effect: harmful
“Pectinophora gossypiella in cotton (Keerthisinghe, 1982)”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed
Aggregated via GloBI — not independently verified by AgroEco.
herbivory 1
- GloBI eats Gossypium hirsutum https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330587950
pest pressure 1
- GloBI hasHost Gossypium hirsutum Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández (2023). HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a via Natural History Museum (2023). Data Portal query on 1 resources created at 2023-05-24 11:19:42.032183 PID https://doi.org/10.5519/qd.bsucrxdz. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/HOSTS/archive/808e0b869f9ec1adf8efff87cf6a395adda103e0.zip> on 23 May 2026. DOI
pollination 1
- GloBI interactsWith Gossypium hirsutum https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330587950
crop interaction 3
- GloBI eats Gossypium hirsutum https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330587950
- GloBI hasHost Gossypium hirsutum Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández (2023). HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a via Natural History Museum (2023). Data Portal query on 1 resources created at 2023-05-24 11:19:42.032183 PID https://doi.org/10.5519/qd.bsucrxdz. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/HOSTS/archive/808e0b869f9ec1adf8efff87cf6a395adda103e0.zip> on 23 May 2026. DOI
- GloBI interactsWith Gossypium hirsutum https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330587950