ABSTRACT

The Texas Pink Bollworm Suppression/Eradication program has been making treatments to suppress this damaging pest of western cotton for two years in the El Paso/Trans Pecos region. The program has removed pink bollworm as an economic concern for cotton growers in the region. Pink bollworm moth populations have been suppressed by more than 85 percent from 2000 population levels, the year before the program began. Larval boll infestations have been reduced 66 percent in one calendar year.