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HARMFUL AND BENEFICIARY COTTON INSECTS

HARMFUL INSECTS category : Sucking Pest They suck nutrient from the leaves and the plant it slows down the growth of the pants
	Aphids Aphis gossypuii	Jassids Amarrasca biguttula	Thrips Thrips tabaci	Mites Tetranychus telarius
BENEFICIARY INSECTS They protect the plant from sucking pest by eating them or there eggs
	Aphidius colemani	Encarsia formosa	ladybird beetle	Lacewing
HARMFUL INSECTS called chewing pest. Cotton bolworm they feed on cotton plants .
	Helicoverpa armigera	Pectinophora gossypiella	Spodoptera litura	Earias sp
BENEFICIARY INSECTS They protect the plant from chewing pests by eating them or there eggs
	Trichogramma sp	Two-toned caterpillar	Night Stalking spider	Assassin Bug
		Parasites that attack chewing pest eggs and thus limit their reproduction		Predators that directly attack chewing pest.
	Banded caterpillar		Mud wasp	Predators that directly attack chewing pest.
Virus Are used in Organic farming to control the plants from some insects such as bolworms By the use of genetic modification chemical companies have used some virus to make some cotton plants resistant to bolworm. Agrocel does not use genetically modified seeds.		This special virus control the bolworn . This Virus is being used in genetically modified seeds		It controls cotton bolworms . This virus is not yet used in Genetic modification.
	Bacillus thuringiensis.		Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus