Table 10a Arkansas Northeast Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

Pest

acres infested

acres treated

# insect appls

Cost of 1 applic

cost/ acre

%red

Bales lost

Boll Weevil

500,000

500,000

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Bollworm/Budworm

558,000

400,000

1.020

$7.00

$7.14

0.95

17,438

Pink Bollworm

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Fleahopper

500,000

0

0.000

N/A

0.00

0.00

0

Lygus

558,000

558,000

1.898

$7.50

$14.23

1.19

21,797

Cotton Leaf Perforator

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Spider Mites

475,000

265,000

1.127

$18.00

$20.28

1.01

18,555

Thrips

558,000

558,000

1.613

$7.00

$11.29

0.24

4,359

Beet Armyworm

300,000

100,000

0.170

$10.00

$1.70

0.10

1,875

Fall Armyworm

425,000

350,000

1.190

$10.00

$11.90

0.36

6,641

European Cornborer

5,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Stink Bugs

558,000

200,000

0.340

$8.00

$2.72

0.24

4,359

Grasshoppers

50,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Saltmarsh Caterpillars

425,000

25,000

0.043

$7.50

$0.32

0.01

266

Aphids

400,000

50,000

0.085

$9.00

$0.77

0.00

0

Banded Winged Whitefly

300,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemesia)

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Loopers

400,000

10,000

0.000

N/A

$0.02

0.01

125

Southern Armyworms

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Other Insects

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cutworms

275,000

150,000

0.255

$3.50

$0.89

0.01

172

Percent Lost

4.11

Est. yield/acre

880

 

Cost/ Acre

 

 

 

 

Foliar insecticide

$71.27

Total Acres

588,000

Spray applications

7.742

At planting

$8.66

 

 

 

 

Bt use fees

$16.69

 

 

Cost + loss

$91,851,200

Eradication

$17.08

Total Bales lost

75,586

 

 

Scouting

$5.49

Bales lost in dollars

$21,768,750

Cost + loss/acre

$156.21

Total

$119.19