Table 23c Texas North Rolling Plains Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

Pest

acres infested

acres treated

# insect appls

Cost of 1 applic

cost/ acre

%red

Bales lost

Boll Weevil

30,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Bollworm/Budworm

500,000

25,000

0.050

$8.00

$0.40

4.00

35,417

Pink Bollworm

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Fleahopper

500,000

100,000

0.200

$7.50

$1.50

1.00

8,854

Lygus

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Leaf Perforator

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Spider Mites

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Thrips

500,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Beet Armyworm

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Fall Armyworm

5,000

5,000

0.010

$10.50

$0.11

0.00

0

European Cornborer

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Stink Bugs

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Grasshoppers

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Saltmarsh Caterpillars

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Aphids

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Banded Winged Whitefly

0

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

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

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

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Percent Lost

5.00

Est. yield/acre

500

 

Cost/ Acre

 

 

 

 

Foliar insecticide

$2.01

Total Acres

500,000

Spray applications

0.260

At planting

$0.27

 

 

 

 

Bt use fees

$2.00

 

 

Cost + loss

$20,507,500

Eradication

$11.00

Total Bales lost

44,271

 

 

Scouting

$0.24

Bales lost in dollars

$12,750,000

Cost + loss/acre

$41.02

Total

$15.52