The Cotton Council has been funding our project, for which we intend to identify cotton varieties with efficiency of dry matter production when irrigation is expensive, or relatively inexpensive.

Biological control represents one alternative to insecticides. The Cotton Research Council (CRC) has funded a project to study native egg parasites of Heliothis.

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, ranks second to Heliothis in importance as a pest of cotton. Mites reduce profitability by reducing the yield and fibre quality of cotton.

Yield responses to increasing amounts of irrigation water have been demonstrated in the past by individual trials. In these trials watering occured at varying deficits of soil moisture below field capacity .

The study reported here concentrated. On these sap-suokinq bugs, which were reputed to damage seedling and early-squaring cotton

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS use as an insecticide for 25 years despite formidable competition from conventional insecticides is largely due to its safety and compatibility.

As most of you are aware, the Siratac Cotton Management Advisor computer program is being rewritten. There will be those amongst you who are unaware as to why this is being done.

One such form is biological control, which relies on the use of natural pathogens and parasites to control the pest species.

Most, if not all, entomologists involved in the development of cotton insect management systems agree that an essent1al part of a successful Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is the ava;lability of an eff1cac1o

Irrigation scheduling in cotton using the water balance program WATERSCHED has been the subject of an extension development project in Queensland for two years. The project is funded by Cotton Research Council.

The aim of the present work is to assess the usefulness of pteridines in determining the age of adults of P. scutigera.

Insecticides can poison insects in many ways. Insecticides r...:an interfere with metabolic processes , of energy production, cuticular growth and hormone production.

Irrigation trials have been conducted at Byee over the last two seasons as part of a Statewide project funded by the Cotton Research Council.

To understand, and predict, Heliothis dynamics on cotton, along with changes in resistance levels, we must understand their dynamics on other hosts and the patterns of movement from these to cotton.

At the time of the initiation of the H.armigera resistance management strategy, there was a need to demonstrate that any increase in resistance was limited to crops sprayed with pyrethroids.

SIRATAC users have the option early in the season of using standard thresholds or dynamic thresholds which vary between the standard level and an upper limit.

All insecticide management decisions require a solid platform of reliable data and this can only be achieved by a long term committment to pesticide studies, obtaining baseline susceptibility data and monitoring of ch

The Siratac system when it was originally conceived had no database system included in the workings of the system.

The frequency of resistance to synthetic pyrethroids in Heliothis armigera has been monitored in the Namoi Valley since the introduction of the insecticide resistance management strategy in 1983.

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