Table 1 - ESTIMATED REDUCTION IN 1982 COTTON YIELDS RESULTING FROM INSECT DAMAGE.a TOTAL YIELD: 12,102 bales

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

7.0

31.5

1.0

12.8

2.7

14.58

NA

NA

7.5

1.58

7.0

15.4

4.26

37.49

3.6

64.8

0

0

NA

NA

3.0

3.0

0.4

1.12

8.0

12.4

0.5

1.78

3.4

89.1

0

285.55

2.36

Bollworm tobacco budworm

Heliothis tea (Boddie)

Heliothis virescens (F)

Percent

Bales

4.2

18.9

1.5

19.2

3.6

19.44

0.25

7.75

6.0

1.26

3.0

6.6

3.79

33.35

2.2

39.6

2.0

4.2

6.0

5.38

7.1

7.1

8.0

22.4

8.4

13.02

3.0

10.65

4.0

104.84

10.0

 

313.72

2.59

Cotton fleahopper

Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Reuter)

Percent

Bales

0

0

0.02

0.256

0.1

0.54

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.25

2.2

0.03

0.54

0

0

3.0

2.69

NA

NA

1.0

2.8

0

0

0

0

1.7

44.56

0

0

53.59

0.44

Lygus spp. and other

Plant bugs

Percent

Bales

0.42

1.89

1.30

16.64

0.6

3.24

1.0

31.00

0.1

0.02

2.0

4.4

0.22

1.93

0.6

10.8

0.1

0.21

3.5

3.14

0

0

0

0

0.6

0.93

0.2

0.71

0.65

17.04

0

0

91.95

0.76

Cotton Leafperforator

Bacculatrix thurberiella

(Buack)

Percent

Bales

NA

NA

0.05

0.64

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

0.3

0.27

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

0.91

0.01

Pink bollworm

Pectinorphora gossypiella

(Saunders)

Percent

Bales

NA

NA

3.10

39.68

NA

NA

1.0

31.00

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

2.0

1.79

NA

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

0.15

3.93

NA

NA

76.4

0.63

Spider Mite

Tetranchus spp.

Percent

Bales

0.05

0.225

0.20

2.56

0.20

1.08

2.43

75.33

0.05

0.01

0.1

0.22

0.2

1.76

0.1

1.8

0.1

0.21

0.4

0.36

0

0

0.2

0.56

0.3

0.47

0.05

0.18

0.67

17.56

1.5

0.0

102.34

0.85

Thrips

Frankliniella spp.

Percent

Bales

0.05

0.225

0

0

0.30

1.62

0

0

0.10

0.2

0.10

0.22

0.16

1.40

0.39

7.02

0

0

2.1

1.88

0

0

0.25

0.7

0.9

1.40

0.02

0.07

0.52

13.63

-

-

28.47

0.24

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

 

Percent

Bales

d

0.52

2.34

g-c-k

0.65

8.32

0

0

k

0.01

0.31

d-f-k

0.60

0.13

d-e

0.5

1.1

d-i

0.36

3.17

d-h-i-l

0.19

3.42

f

1.0

2.1

f

0.2

0.18

f

5.0

5.0

i

0.3

0.84

d-i

1.2

1.86

l-k

0.02

0.07

i-k

0.95

24.90

0

0

 

 

53.74

 

 

0.44

Total Percent Loss - - - - - - - - - - - -

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

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

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

12.26

55.17

59.40

450

7.82

100.1

80.00

1280

7.5

40.5

39.41

540

4.68

145.08

16.26

3100

14.40

3.04

132.45

21.08

12.7

27.94

91.00

220

9.25

81.4

59.80

880

7.11

127.98

46.80

1800

3.2

6.72

10.00

210

17.5

15.70

26.25

89.7

15.1

15.1

42.12

100

10.15 28.42

36.00

280

19.4

30.07

87.84

155

3.62

12.85

9.00

355

12.04

315.57

32.04

26.21

11.51

0.04

55.00

.312

Total bales loss

1006

Total

%

loss

8.3

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)): iCotton aphid (Aphis gossypii (Glover)). jCutworms (Agrotis spp.): (Feltia subterranea (F.)). kWhitefly (Trialeurodes abutilonea (Haldeman). lAverage control cost for all States--. mTotal yield for all States--