The boll containing the seeds bursts when ripe and the seeds spread.
The young larvae penetrate the ovaries of flowers or young Bolls within two days of hatching.
Because the worm is inside the Bolls, farmers cannot know of the hidden damage until the Bolls burst.
As he cracked open the boll, a pink-coloured worm,
less than a centimetre long, woke up twirling, as if to say‘hi'.
Aslan shared the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival's Best Actress
Award in 2011 together with Görkem Yeltan for her role in Vücut.
But the scientists, aghast to see that the pink coloured
worms had devoured the green cotton Bolls from inside, were worried for reasons beyond that.
In the last week of November 2015,
a farmer in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district plucked a few cotton Bolls from a plant on her field
and cracked them open for a team of visiting cotton experts to see what lay inside.
The damage, according to the CICR's extensive field surveys in December 2015,
was more in the green Bolls for second and third pickings-
white cotton is picked by farmers from Bolls as they come to flowering in stages spanning four, sometimes, five months, October through March.