Table 22 Tennessee Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

Pest

acres infested

acres treated

# insect appls

Cost of 1 applic

cost/ acre

%red

Bales lost

Boll Weevil

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Bollworm/Budworm

616,000

135,000

0.241

$7.50

$1.81

0.90

11,550

Pink Bollworm

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Fleahopper

5,000

0

0.000

N/A

0.00

0.00

0

Lygus

616,000

492,800

1.200

$7.50

$9.00

0.40

5,133

Cotton Leaf Perforator

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Spider Mites

369,600

61,600

0.140

$10.25

$1.44

0.18

2,310

Thrips

616,000

154,000

0.250

$5.25

$1.31

0.20

2,567

Beet Armyworm

24,000

800

0.001

$9.50

$0.01

0.00

0

Fall Armyworm

210,000

25,000

0.041

$8.70

$0.35

0.07

875

European Cornborer

1,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Stink Bugs

492,000

246,400

0.440

$7.75

$3.41

0.72

9,225

Grasshoppers

60,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Saltmarsh Caterpillars

1,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Aphids

616,000

3,300

0.005

$7.70

$0.04

0.02

257

Banded Winged Whitefly

8,000

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

200,000

1,000

0.002

$9.50

$0.02

0.00

0

Southern Armyworms

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Clouded Plant Bug

460,000

360,000

0.701

$8.30

$5.82

0.67

8,625

Cutworms

55,000

394,000

0.640

$1.40

$0.90

0.00

11

Percent Lost

3.16

Est. yield/acre

800

 

Cost/ Acre

 

 

 

 

Foliar insecticide

$24.10

Total Acres

616,000

Spray applications

3.661

At planting

$8.56

 

 

 

 

Bt use fees

$15.21

 

 

Cost + loss

$50,435,076

Eradication

$9.80

Total Bales lost

40,553

 

 

Scouting

$5.25

Bales lost in dollars

$11,679,300

Cost + loss/acre

$81.88

Total

$62.92