Table 23d Texas High Plains Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

Pest

acres infested

acres treated

# insect appls

Cost of 1 applic

cost/ acre

%red

Bales lost

Boll Weevil

85,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Bollworm/Budworm

3,114,000

1,124,500

0.423

$6.00

$2.54

1.98

149,861

Pink Bollworm

500,000

48,000

0.035

$7.00

$0.24

0.12

8,750

Cotton Fleahopper

331,000

10,000

0.003

$6.00

$0.02

0.00

0

Lygus

257,000

5,000

0.001

$7.50

$0.01

0.00

0

Cotton Leaf Perforator

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Spider Mites

350,000

38,000

0.011

$10.50

$0.12

0.02

1,531

Thrips

3,100,000

150,000

0.043

$5.50

$0.24

0.90

67,813

Beet Armyworm

200,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Fall Armyworm

175,000

80,000

0.023

$8.50

$0.20

0.01

766

European Cornborer

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Stink Bugs

15,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Grasshoppers

40,000

5,000

0.001

$7.85

$0.01

0.00

88

Saltmarsh Caterpillars

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Aphids

2,850,000

120,000

0.035

$9.50

$0.33

0.16

12,469

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

Darkling Beetle

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

3.19

Est. yield/acre

777

 

Cost/ Acre

 

 

 

 

Foliar insecticide

$3.70

Total Acres

3,460,000

Spray applications

0.575

At planting

$2.02

 

 

 

 

Bt use fees

$2.60

 

 

Cost + loss

$130,505,590

Eradication

$8.00

Total Bales lost

241,277

 

 

Scouting

$1.32

Bales lost in dollars

$69,487,740

Cost + loss/acre

$37.72

Total

$17.64