Expect no curtain call for the pink bollworm, the most pernicious pest in southwestern desert cotton fields.
Eradication of the pinkie is near, but not a done deal in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Northern Mexico has made tremendous strides in eradication.
For more than four decades, PBW has been kept out of California’s San Joaquin Valley with an aggressive trapping program to monitor it and dropping millions of sterile pink bollworm moths to overwhelm native populations.
