Table 1 - ESTIMATED REDUCTION IN 1985 COTTON YIELDS RESULTING FROM INSECT DAMAGE TOTAL YIELD 13,622 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 grandus

Boheman

Percent

Bales

5.2

26.0

0.4

4.0

1.5

10.5

.003

.10

5.55

1.94

6.01

21.64

4.5

34.2

0.85

14.28

0

0

0

0

NA

.15

.39

0

0.1

0.4

0.48

20.16

0

0

133.61

0.98

Bollworm-tobacco budworm

Heliothis zea (Boddie)

Heliothis virescens (F.)

Percent

Bales

2.6

13.0

1.0

10.0

1.8

12.6

0.7

22.4

4.32

1.51

3.61

13.0

4.0

30.4

1.3

21.84

1.0

1.95

2.5

1.88

8.5

9.78

5.0

13

4.3

7.74

3.0

12

3.78

158.76

15

.32

330.18

2.4

Cotton fleahopper

Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Reuter)

Percent

Bales

0

0

.01

.1

1.0

7.0

0

0

0

0

0.21

0.76

0.5

3.8

0.5

8.4

0

0

2.0

1.5

NA

1.0

2.6

0.1

0.18

0.1

0.4

0.62

26.04

0

0

50.78

0.37

Lygus spp. and other

Plant bugs

Percent

Bales

1

5

1.10

11.0

2.0

14.0

0.63

20.16

.03

.01

1.0

3.6

0.7

5.32

0.64

10.75

5.0

9.75

2.5

1.88

0.5

0.58

0

0

0.5

0.9

3.2

12.8

0.14

5.88

0

0

101.63

0.74

Cotton Leafperforator

Bucculatrix thurberiella

busck

Percent

Bales

NA

.05

O.5

NA

0

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

0

0

NA

0

0

NA

NA

0

0

NA

0.5

Trace

Pink bollworm

Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders)

Percent

Bales

NA

2.6

26

NA

0.11

3.52

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

2.0

1.5

NA

0

0

NA

NA

0.06

2.52

NA

33.54

0.25

Spider Mite

Tetranychus spp.

Percent

Bales

0.2

1.0

0.4

4.0

0

0

0.5

16.0

.02

.01

0.12

0.43

0.3

2.28

1.04

17.47

.05

.1

0.5

0.38

0

0

.05

.13

0.5

0.9

0.5

2.0

0.59

24.78

0.5

.01

69.49

0.51

Thrips

Frankliniella spp.

Percent

Bales

0.2

1.0

.02

0.2

0.8

5.6

0.25

8.0

.13

.05

0.42

1.51

0.6

4.56

0.26

4.37

2.0

3.9

2.5

1.88

1.0

1.15

0

0

1.8

3.24

0.5

2.0

1.19

49.98

0.5

.01

91.45

0.67

Others :

c,d,e,f,g,h,j,k,l

 

Percent

Bales

C,I,l

1.54

5.9

D,e

1.3

13

 

0

0

K,e,d

0.205

6.56

C

1.18

0.41

I,c

0.31

1.12

I,c,l

0.9

6.84

C,e,j,h,k

2.120

35.62

F

0.25

0.49

D,e,,hI

3.1

2.33

F,e

6.7

7.71

 

0

0

C,d,e,f,I

3..5

6.3

E

4.7

8.8

I,h

1.14

47.88

 

0

0

147.96

1.1

Total Percent Loss

Total Bales Loss

Cost Control/Acre1

Yield in Balesm

Percent

Bales

Dollars

Bales

10.38

51.9

48.12

500

6.88

68.8

95.00

1,000

7.1

49.7

32.00

700

2.4

76.74

15.85

3,200

11.26

3.93

82.80

34.9

11.68

42.06

88.57

360

11.5

87.4

59.50

760

6.7

112.73

37.60

1,680

8.3

16.19

14.30

195

15.13

11.35

17.00

75

16.7

19.22

33.00

115

6.2

16.12

14.00

260

10.7

19.26

46.20

180

12.1

48.4

9.50

400

8.0

336

9.56

4,200

16.2

0.34

28.00

2.1

955.23

24.78m

13662

7.01

Acres hvst. * 1,000

327

390

440

1,340

21.5

255

635

1,040

152

55

88

355

122

330

4,700

1.7

10252.29

A All 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 9several spp.); fEuropean corn borer ( Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner)); gYellowstriped armyworm (Spodoptera ornithogalli (Guenee)); hGrasshoppers (Schistocerca americana (Drury)); 1Cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii Glover ); jCutworms (Agrotis spp.) (Feltia subterranea (f.)); kWhitefly (Trialleurodes abutilonea or Bemesia tabaci); 1Western Flower Thrips; mAverage cost for all states nTotal yield for all states o Total acres for all states *Does not include BWE cost