The green mirid, Creontiades dilutus (Hemiptera: Miridae), is a serious pest of cotton in Australia (Adams and Pyke, 1982).

One approach in the drive by the cotton industry to introduce more effective and more sustainable methods of bollworm control than are presently available, has been to develop a new generation of insecticides based on

We introduce a new idea, that recovery capacity is an important trait in cotton resistance to insect damage.

The wild Australian Gossypium species arei subdivided into three sections. Sturtia. Hibiscoidea and Grandicalyx. The first two sections together contain five species.

While among researchers simulation models are consider to be useful tools, modelling has a badreputation in the industry. Many people feel it has very little connection with what happens in the field.