Table 23g Texas Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

Pest

acres infested

acres treated

# insect appls

Cost of 1 applic

cost/ acre

%red

Bales lost

Boll Weevil

37,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Bollworm/Budworm

343,000

78,750

0.261

$10.00

$2.61

3.04

27,583

Pink Bollworm

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Cotton Fleahopper

451,774

5,000

0.011

$6.50

$0.07

0.25

2,271

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

21,000

800

0.004

$20.00

$0.07

0.02

211

Thrips

266,000

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Beet Armyworm

10,000

1,500

0.007

$15.00

$0.10

0.00

20

Fall Armyworm

168,750

33,750

0.075

$15.00

$1.12

0.52

4,750

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

300

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Saltmarsh Caterpillars

0

0

0.000

N/A

$0.00

0.00

0

Aphids

250,800

42,750

0.095

$6.50

$0.62

0.14

1,261

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 Beetles

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

3.97

Est. yield/acre

789

 

Cost/ Acre

 

 

 

 

Foliar insecticide

$4.59

Total Acres

451,774

Spray applications

0.452

At planting

$1.32

 

 

 

 

Bt use fees

$4.53

 

 

Cost + loss

$18,230,651

Eradication

$5.75

Total Bales lost

36,095

 

 

Scouting

$1.16

Bales lost in dollars

$10,395,328

Cost + loss/acre

$40.35

Total

$17.34