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What is a immature cotton ball called?
An immature cotton ball is called a boll. Bolls contain the fluffy fibers that will later be harvested for cotton production.
Which insect affect the crop yield?
Insects such as aphids, caterpillars, and beetles can affect crop yield by eating the plants, reducing their growth and overall productivity. They can also transmit diseases to the plants, further impacting their health and yield. It's important for farmers to monitor and manage insect populations to protect their crops.
How cotton is extracted from the cotton plant?
Cotton grows ". . .in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants." The boll are picked or plucked from the bush either by hand or by machine.
How do they get the cotton from the plants?
Cotton is picked from the shrubs where it grows. The cotton fibre is encased in a hard-shell boll which cracks open when the cotton fibre is fully formed.
What are the fibers of the cotton boll used for?
What is a cotton boll used 4?
What does cotton boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
How does boll weevil destroy the cotton plant?
The boll weevil has this big snout and it uses it to bite the top of the cotton plant. Then it licks out the cotton until it has no more cotton inside the ball. The boll weevil larvae and pupal do the same thing but they have to get help from the adult boll weevil to eat the top og the cotton plant.
How is a boll weevil destroy cotton?
They eat the buds off the cotton plants. The boll weevil does not destroy the cotton plant directly, it destroys the boll wherein grows the cotton and its seeds.
How does cotton go from plant to cotton?
Cotton is a bushy plant that is grown in different parts of the United States. In CA we plant our cotton by seed in the early spring and it grows all summer. The cotton plant has a flower that blooms and this flower becomes a cotton boll. The cotton boll is picked in late fall with a mechanical cotton picker. Before this can be done the plant has to be killed and this is done through a chemical application sprayed on the plant. After the plant is dead the machine goes through the field pulling the cotton off the boll. This takes several times to get all the cotton and it is put into big trailers that hold the loose picked cotton. It is then taken to a cotton gin where it is ginned, the seeds removed and baled. The seeds are used to plant the next year for the new crop of cotton.
What is the seed pod of cotton called?
The seed of cotton is called 'cotton seed'.The pod that contains the cotton seed and the cotton fiber is called a 'boll'.
What does boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
What was hard to remove from the cotton boll?
The cotton! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What is a cotton ball?
A cotton boll is the locks of fluff that grows cotton plant on it. then it is picked and used to make different pieces of clothes such as jeans or t-shirts...etc.
What is the difference in cotton-picking and cotton pulling?
Cotton picking is pulling the soft cotton out of the hard boll that has opened when the cotton is ready to be harvested. Cotton pulling is harvesting the cotton by pulling the entire opened boll, with the cotton in it.
