Table 1 - ESTIMATED REDUCTION IN 1981 COTTON YIELDS RESULTING FROM INSECT DAMAGE.a

STATE
INSECTS Loss in AL AZ AR CA FL GA LA MS MO NM NC OK SC TN TX VA No. Bales Loss Total

%

Loss

Boll Weevil

Anthonomus grandis

(Boheman)

Percent

Bales

5.5

23

0.13

2

2.75

17.2

NAb

NA

6

0.9

3.2

5

3.9

29

2.7

43

0

0

NA

NA

2

1.8

Na

Na

4.1

6.6

1

3.1

1.2

70.1

0

0

200.83 1.29
Bollworm tobacco budworm

Heliothis tea (Boddie)

Heliothis virescens (F)

Percent

Bales

4.5

18.8

1.5

23.3

1.5

9.4

0

0

7

1.1

5.1

7.9

4.9

36.8

2.6

41.5

5

8.1

9

10

13

11.3

8

33

3.1

5

5

16

1.8

103

3

0.01

323.71 2.08
Cotton fleahopper

Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Reuter)

Percent

Bales

0

0

0.02

0.31

0.05

0.31

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.3

2.3

0.05

0.7

0.3

0.4

3

3.3

0

0

0.5

2.1

0

0

0

0

1.1

63

0

0

71.03 0.46
Lygus spp. and other

Plant bugs

Percent

Bales

1.3

5.4

1.3

20

0.75

4.7

1.6

55

0.3

0.05

1.1

1.7

0.4

3

0.2

3.1

1.5

2.4

6

6.6

0

0

0

0

0.2

0.3

3

9.3

0.17

9.7

0

0

121.56 0.78
Cotton Leafperforator

Bacculatrix thurberiella

(Buack)

Percent

Bales

NA

NA

0.9

13.5

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

0.1

0.1

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

13.6 0.09
Pink bollworm

Pectinorphora gossypiella

(Saunders)

Percent

Bales

NA

NA

2.9

45

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

2

2.2

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

0.03

1.7

NA

NA

49.02 0.31
Spider Mite

Tetranchus spp.

Percent

Bales

0.6

2.5

0.3

4.3

0.2

1.3

4

124

0.2

0.03

0.1

0.2

0.6

4.5

0.1

1.9

0.5

0.8

0.1

0.1

0.5

0.5

0.1

0.4

0.1

0.1

3

9

0.01

0.5

0

0

150.53 0.97
Thrips

Frankliniella spp.

Percent

Bales

1.7

7

0

0

1

6.3

0

0

0.2

0.03

0.1

0.2

0.5

3.8

0.2

2.7

2

3.2

3

3.3

0.1

0.05

0.5

2.1

0.5

0.8

0.1

0.2

0.05

2.6

0

0

31.98 0.21
Othersc, d ,e ,f, g, h ,i , j, k, l,  

Percent

Bales

c, l, k

0.7

3

d, e, k

1.1

17.5

0

0

0

0

C,k

0.6

0.09

C, d

0.5

0.8

C, i

.1

8.3

C, d, h, j

0.3

5

f

1.5

2.4

0

0

f

4

3.6

F, k

0.6

2.3

c, f

0.8

1.2

i

0.2

0.6

h

0.2

41.0

0

0

85.51 0.55
Total Percent Loss - - - - - - - - - - - -

Total Bales Loss- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Cost Control/Acre1- - - - - - - - - - - - -

Yield in Balesm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

14.3

59.6

41.7

418

8.1

126

69

1,550

6.3

39.1

26.4

625

5.2

179

21.7

3,450

14.3

2.2

15

135

10.15.98 15.7

72

155

11.7

84.8

49.5

750

6.2

98

33.4

1,570

10.8

17.2

7.00

162

23.1

25.4

14

110

19.1

17.2

7.80

90

9.7

39.6

42.5

410

8.7

14

90.0

160

12.3

38.1

3.5

310

5.0

286.1

25

5,700

3

0.01

24.0

0.450

1040 to the nearest

104

6.74

aAll bale figures in table * 1,000. Estimated by research, extension, and others based on Statistical Reporting Service December Report.

bNA= not applicable

cFall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith)). dBeet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua (Hubner)). eStink bugs (Euschistus sp.). fEuropean corn borer (Ostrina nubilalis (Hubner)). gYellowstriped armyworm (Spodoptera ornithogalli (Guenee)). hGrasshoppers (Schistocerca americana (Drury)): (Melanoplus spp.). iCotton aphid (Aphis gossypii (Glover)). jCutworms (Agrotis spp.): (Feltia subterranea (F.)). kWhitefly (Trialeurodes abutilonea (Haldeman). lAverage control cost for all States--$36.27. mTotal yield for all States--10,937.0