Controlling cotton insect pests has become a major cost in cotton production in the Midsouth. Mississippi has experienced increasing insect control costs during the last several years that may make changes in control approaches advisable. Control strategies for the future, especially area-wide activities such as boll weevil eradication, depend on these activities being favorable economically. To help make decisions about future activities, some cost analyses are needed. Analyses of insect control costs are complicated by the fact that the severity of any one pest species can change from year to year.