From the video's description: American boll worm is neither a major nor a minor pest of American cotton since 2002 in Jind district of Haryana, India. Fortunately or unfortunately, all the notified & recommended varieties of American cotton have been replaced by BT hybrids. Now a new insect called mealybug (Phenococcus solenopsis) having its origin in USA is becoming a potential threat to cotton cultivation. In such a critical situation, 14 types of coccinellid lady beetles along with 6 types of predatory bugs, 2 types of chrysoperla spp., so many types of preying mantids, predatory flies and wasps, 3 types of parasitoids,parasites and 3 types of pathogens are active and helping the cotton growing farmers of district Jind (Haryana) in particular and society as a whole.
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