Interest in Integrated Pest management (IPM) and Area Wide Management (AWM) continues to increase within the Australian Cotton industry. The costs of chemical control, coupled with pests developing increasing levels of insecticide resistance and an awareness of the potential impacts of sprays on the neighbouring environment have led many Australian cotton growers to consider new approaches to pest management. AWM an approach which acknowledges that pest and beneficial insects are mobile, and that the management regimes to control pests imposed on a given field are likely to alter the abundance of beneficial organisms and levels of insecticide resistance in the surrounding locality. By communicating and coordinating strategies, growers within an AWM group have better opportunities to implement ERM strategies like those outlined in the Integrated Pest Management Guidelines for Australian Cotton (Mensah and Wilson 1999).