Egg collecting has been critical to the success of the Helicoverpa resistance monitoring programs.

This paper presents techniques used for rearing egg parasitoids on AGM eggs in an experimental facility at the QDPI Division of Plant Protection entomology laboratories in Toowoomba.

There are, few parasitoids which specifically attack the pupal stage. This is perhaps understandable since pupae are not readily accessible, being in the soil.

The aim of the Heliothis identification project is to develop a simple kit that can be used by field workers to distinguish quickly and reliably between individual eggs and small larvae of Heliothis armigera and H.