Cotton growers spend thousands of dollars annually monitoring insect pests and beneficials. The information generated from monitoring is used to make pest control decisions.

Even though large scale planting of Bt cotton started a decade ago, consequences on a landscape-scale have hardly been studied. Helicoverpa armigera and H.

The relative timing of pest and beneficial arrival in the crops, and how the landscape context facilitates or hinders colonization processes is thought to be one of the key processes of lower pest populations.

High adoption rates of genetically modified, insecticidal Bt cotton lead to regional changes inpest management practice with potential consequences for populations of the mainlepidopteran pest, Helicoverpa spp., and n

To attend the first First International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods (ISBCA) in Hawaii, January 2002 (re-scheduled after September 11, 2001 events).