1. Small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton
    
2. Larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls
   "The Gelechia gossypiella caused significant losses to the cotton harvest";
   - pink bollworm

Type of: bollworm, gelechiid, gelechiid moth

Part of: family Gelechiidae, Gelechia, Gelechiidae, genus Gelechia

Encyclopedia: Gelechia gossypiella