Attendance at the 60th Entomological Society of America Annual Conference where a paper on the background of the Australian cotton industry, in particular the Darling Downs landscape, with detail on biology and ecology of helicoverpa punctigera and H. armigera in Australia was presented. Data collection methods and how they will link with the resistance modelling components of the current project "The role of Bt cotton in pest suppressive landscapes' were discussed in detail.

With Dr Nancy Shellhorn and an american Professor Ives, detailed planning and modelling were completed for a series of field experiments for Project CSE1302 9above)