Table 23f Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

Pest

acres infested

acres treated

# insect appls

Cost of 1 applic

cost/ acre

%red

Bales lost

Boll Weevil

186,628

186,628

3.000

$8.75

$26.25

2.94

10,288

Bollworm/Budworm

186,628

55,988

0.240

$10.25

$2.46

0.30

1,050

Pink Bollworm

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Fleahopper

186,628

74,651

0.400

$7.25

$2.90

0.20

700

Lygus

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Leaf Perforator

18,663

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Spider Mites

74,651

10,000

0.054

$11.75

$0.63

0.04

140

Thrips

186,628

10,000

0.064

$7.25

$0.47

0.10

350

Beet Armyworm

186,628

10,000

0.053583

$13.75

$0.736760

0.30

1,050

Fall Armyworm

5,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

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

186,628

55,988

0.300

$6.75

$2.02

0.05

175

Banded Winged Whitefly

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemesia)

186,625

10,000

0.054

$12.75

$0.68

0.01

35

Loopers

186,628

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

3.94

Est. yield/acre

414

 

Cost/ Acre

 

 

 

 

Foliar insecticide

$36.15

Total Acres

186,628

Spray applications

4.165

At planting

$1.05

 

 

 

 

Bt use fees

$14.40

 

 

Cost + loss

$17,659,972

Eradication

$16.80

Total Bales lost

13,787

 

 

Scouting

$4.95

Bales lost in dollars

$3,970,697

Cost + loss/acre

$94.63

Total

$73.35