This paper is based on my views and experiences from the four Area Wide IP M Groups in the Macintyre Valley. These groups cover the majority of the irrigated cotton from Yetman to just east of Boomi.

White speck neps cause significant financial losses to the textile industry and the following studies look at several factors that may affect white specks.

Dry season cotton production in northern Australia faces considerable challenges if it is to emerge as a sustainable industry.

In the past three years two biological control agents, new to Australia, have been discovered attacking cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii.

Petroleum spray oils (PSOs) have been used for control of a wide range of pests and are now an essential part of many integrated pest management programs (IPM) for agricultural and horticultural crops (Simanton and Tr