Daniel Heuclin / Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) with maturing bolls. Near Buckeye, Arizona, USA, September.

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot of cotton plantation, shot zooms out to reveal scale of field, cause of forest loss and deforestation in Amazon, Brazil

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot of a cotton plantation, cause of forest loss, Rondonia, Brazil, 2019.

Nigel Cattlin / Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) on damaged unopened Cotton (Gossypium sp) boll.

Nigel Cattlin / Tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens) caterpillar feeding inside damaged Cotton (Gossypium sp) boll.

Nigel Cattlin / A cotton flower (Gossypium hirsutum) from the fibre crop against a black background

Nigel Cattlin / Tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens) caterpillar feeding on unripe Cotton (Gossypium sp) boll.

Nigel Cattlin / Beet armyworm / Small mottled willow (Spodoptera exigua) moth on Cotton (Gossypium sp) flower bud.

Nigel Cattlin / Spiny bollworm (Earias insulana) moth on unripe Cotton (Gossypium sp) boll, caterpillar food plant. Morocco.

Nigel Cattlin / Beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) caterpillar on Cotton (Gossypium sp) flower, pest on many crops.

Nigel Cattlin / Cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) caterpillars feeding on Cotton (Gossypium sp) leaf. Morocco.

Nigel Cattlin / Spiny bollworm (Earias insulana) caterpillar on damaged Cotton (Gossypium sp) boll. Morocco.