A water management approach commonly used by cotton growers in the Condamine - Lower Balonne catchment area is to divide farm storages into several cells.

Australian cotton production is in the process of adopting new trarisgenic

(INGARD) technology for managing heliothis and other caterpillars. INGARD

The green mind, Creontiades dilutes (Stal) (Hemiptera: Miridae), is an important but sporadic pest of cotton which destroys small squares on cotton plants (Pyke and Brown, 1996).

As low densities of heliothis may survive on Bt transgenic plants late in the season, a specific late season control for heliothis is valuable to reduce the survival of individuals resistant to Bt toxin.

Green mind, Creontiades dilitus (Stal), is an important sporadic pest of cotton at the seedling stage and through early squaring.