The cotton mealybug (CMB), Phenacoccus solenopsis, also known as the solenopsis mealybug, is a highly polyphagous and invasive global insect pest of cotton.

This proposal builds on many years of weeds work supported by CRDC and aims to value add to the earlier work, while providing strategic information to cotton growers in support of MyBMP, based around updating WEEDpak,

Australia contributes approximately 12% of the world’s total cotton production, and is the third largest exporter of cotton fibre.

FUSCOM has always been an excellent means to encourage collaboration between research groups within Australia and communicate research activities to various groups.

Bill Gordon Consulting Pty Ltd(BCG) has provided training on application and drift management to the cotton industry for over a decade.