PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2000 BELTWIDE COTTON CONFERENCES
	Jan. 4-8, San Antonio, TX Editors C. Paul Dugger & Debbie A. Richter
COTTON INSECT RESEARCH AND CONTROL CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS

53rd Annual Conference Report on Cotton Insect Research and Control D. D. Hardee and E. Burris	855
Cotton Insect Loss Estimates - 1999 Michael R. Williams	884
Cotton Insect Losses 1999 Michael R. Williams	887
Status of Insecticide Resistance in Tobacco Budworm and Bollworm in Louisiana During 1999 R. D. Bagwell, D. C. Cook, J. J. Adamczyk, B. R. Leonard and S. Micinski	914
Validation of Feeding Disruption Bioassays for Species Diagnosis and Bt-resistance Monitoring of Bollworm and Tobacco Budworm Field Populations W. D. Bailey, H. P. Young, C. F. Wyss, J. S. Bacheler and R. M. Roe	918
Resistance of Bollworm, Helicoverpa Zea, to CryIA(c) Toxin A. D. Burd, J. R. Bradley, Jr., J. W. Van Duyn and F. Gould	923
Characterization of Spinosad (Tracer(R)) Resistance in a Laboratory Strain of the Tobacco Budworm and Development of Novel Diagnostics for Resistance Monitoring in the Field R. M. Roe, W. D. Bailey, H. P. Young and C. F. Wyss	926
Quantification of CryIA(c) d-Endotoxin in Transgenic Bt Cotton: Correlating Insect Survival to Different Protein Levels among Plant Parts and Varieties J. J. Adamczyk, Jr., L. C. Adams and D. D. Hardee	929
Lepidopteran Pest Management in Northeast Louisiana During 1999 B. R. Leonard, K. D. Torrey and J. Milligan	932
New Insecticide Chemistry for Control of the Tarnished Plant Bug in Cotton W. P. Scott, G. L. Snodgrass and D. A. Adams	935
Steward(TM) Dispersion and Cotton Leaf Interactions: Impact on Cotton Insect Pests and Safety to Beneficial Arthropods John T. Andaloro, Keith D. Wing, John H. Green and Edward B. Lang	939
A Five Year Summary of Beneficial Arthropod Studies with "Steward" (DPX MP 062) G. G. Hammes, Dan Sherrod and W. H. Mitchell	940
Steward(TM) Rainfastness and Residual Control on Cotton L. Flexner, J. Green, K. Wing, R. Cameron, J. Saienni and C. Williams	940
Steward Cotton EUP Summary for the Mid-South C. Steven Williams and Dan D. Sherrod	942
Steward(TM) Insecticide - Beet Armyworm Efficacy in Western Cotton J. L. Pacheco and W. J. Steele	942
Activity of Steward Against Plant Bugs, Bollworms and Predacious Arthropods in Cotton in South Carolina Sam G. Turnipseed and Michael J. Sullivan	953
Management of the Tarnished Plant Bug, Lygus Lineolaris, with Traditional and New Insecticides G. M. Lorenz, III, D. R. Johnson, R. Edmund, A. Fisher, L. Page and J. D. Hopkins	954
Compensation of Cotton to Square and Boll Removal with Different Varieties and Planting Dates Virginia Pitman, Ozzie Abaye, Ames Herbert and Derrick Oosterhuis	955
Toxicity of Indoxacarb, Thiodicarb, and Spinosad to the Soybean Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Bt Cotton (cv. NuCOTN 33B) and Conventional Cotton (cv. DP 5415) T. S. Hall, B. R. Leonard, D. J. Boethel and J. Gore	956
Influence of Boll Weevil Eradication on Cotton Aphid Populations in Mississippi Cotton: Year Two J. L. Long, M. B. Layton, B. F. Montgomery and Don Steinkraus	958
Effect of Leaf Color on Armyworm Development D. G. Jones, G. O. Myers and B. R. Leonard	961
The Effects of Insecticide, Nitrogen, and Pix on Arthropod Populations in Cotton in 1998 and 1999 J. D. Smith and S. D. Stewart	963
Synergism of Organophosphate and Pyrethroid Toxicity by Dibrom in Insecticide-Susceptible and -Resistant Tobacco Budworms, Heliothis Virescens Frances Bouy and Jim Ottea	967
Determination of Physiological "Cut-Out" in Louisiana Cotton Based Upon Nodes Above White Flower J. H. Fife, J. Gore, B. R. Leonard and K. D. Torrey	969
Comparison of Different Chemistries and Rates Against Bollworm in Bt and Conventional Cotton D. S. Brickle, S. G. Turnipseed and M. J. Sullivan	971
Bollworm Survival on Reproductive Structures of Non-Transgenic (cv. Deltapine 5415) and Transgenic Bt (cv. NuCOTN 33B) Cottons J. Gore, B. R. Leonard, T. S. Hall and J. H. Fife	975
Impact of Beneficial Arthropod Conservation in B. t. and Conventional Cotton A. M. Hagerty, S. G. Turnipseed and M. J. Sullivan	976
Roundup Ready Cotton Response to Simulated Thrips Damage and Roundup Ultra Applications J. H. Pankey, J. L. Griffin, B. R. Leonard and D. K. Miller	979
Thrips Species Infesting Seedling Cotton in Louisiana, 1996-1998 D. R. Cook, E. Burris and B. R. Leonard	979
Relay Strip Cropping and Food Sprays for Managing Bollworms and Cotton Aphids J. E. Slosser, M. N. Parajulee and D. G. Bordovsky	982
Acoustic System for Rapidly Detecting and Monitoring Pink Bollworm in Cotton Bolls Robert Hickling, Peng Lee, Doru Velea, Timothy J. Dennehy and Amanda I. Patin	984
Trends in Pest Densities, Pesticide Use, and Pesticide Resistance in San Joaquin Valley Cotton E. E. Grafton-Cardwell, P. B. Goodell and G. Montez	988
Effects of Insecticide Applications Made of Cotton Having 10-15 Main Stem Nodes G. R. Wilson, G. L. Andrews and J. B. Phelps	991
The Interaction of Nitrogen Fertilization and Insect Populations G. L. Andrews, Fred Cooke, Jr. and Roy D. Meeks	993
Scouting for Early Instar Fall Armyworms in Cotton and their Control with Dimilin(R) (Diflubenzuron) R. T. Weiland	996
Pro-Active Management of Beet Armyworm (Spodoptera Exigua) Resistance to the IGRs, Tebufenozide and Methoxyfenozide John K. Moulton, David A. Pepper and Timothy J. Dennehy	999
Incidence of the Granulate Cutworm, Feltia Subterranea (F.) (Lepidoptera:noctuidae) in Early Season Mississippi Cotton:An Example of the Utility of a Heliothine Egg Identification System (Hel-ID) in IPM W. W. Bryan, C. L. Sutula, J. J. Adamczyk, Jr., L. C. Adams, D. D. Hardee, R. L. Brown, F. M. Davis, A. F. Harris, J. T. Robbins, B. Price, Jr.,M. Edwards, T. Miller, T. LaMasters and J. Kimbrough	1004
Levels of Organophosphorus and Carbamate Insecticide Resistance Conferred by Insensitive Acetylcholinesterase in the Beet Armyworm, Spodoptera Exigua (Hubner) Frank J. Byrne and Nick C. Toscano	1006
Augmentation of Trichogrammatoidea Bactrae Nagaraja in the IPM Programme for Control of Pink Bollworm, Pectinophora Gossypiella (Saund.) In Egypt Alia Abd El-Hafez and M. A. Nada	1009
Evaluation of Non-Conventional Acaricides Against Spider Mite in Cotton Fields in Egypt Fadel K. El-Duweini	1014
Resistance of Cotton Whitefly, Bemisia Tabaci to Cypermethrin, Alphacypermethrin and Zetacypermethrin in Pakistan Mushtaq Ahmad, M. Iqbal Arif and Zahoor Ahmad	1015
Monitoring for Tolerance to Cry IA(c) in Populations of Heliothis Virescens from Mexico José L. Martínez Carrillo, Urbano Nava Camberos and Mariano Berdegue	1017
Thermal Requirements and Prediction Models of Cotton Leafworm Spodoptera Littoralis (Boisd) Kh. Gh. El-Malki	1019
Survey of True Spiders Associated with Some Field Crops in Egypt M. E. El-Naggar, G. M. Sallam and M. A. Abd-El-Halim	1021
Efficacy and Total Release Interval of Mating Disruption Pheromone on the Control of Pink Bollworm - Pectinophora Gossypiella- in Cotton under Field Conditions in Brazil G. Papa, R. B. Silva and F. J. Almeida	1022
Cruiser(R)/Adage(TM) Uptake Dynamic and Biological Performance under Different Environmental Conditions D. Hofer, F. Brandl and W. Fischer	1024
Bt and Conventional Cotton in the Hills and Delta of Mississippi: 5 Years of Comparison Jack T. Reed, Scott Stewart, David Laughlin, Aubrey Harris, Randall Furr and Ann Ruscoe	1027
An Inventory of the Key Predators of Cotton Pests on Bt and Non-Bt Cotton in West Texas J. Scott Armstrong, James Leser and Gye Kraemer	1030
Bt Resistance under Conventional Insecticide Use Mike Livingston, Gerald Carlson and Paul Fackler	1033
Performance of Bt Cotton in Mississippi, 1999 M. B. Layton, M. R. Williams and J. L. Long	1037
Seasonal Cry1Ac Levels in DP50B: The "Bollgard(R) Basis" for Bollgard II John Greenplate, S. R. Penn, J. Walt Mullins and Mark Oppenhuizen	1039
Bollgard II Efficacy: Quantification of Total Lepidopteran Activity in a 2-Gene Product J. T. Greenplate, S. R. Penn, Z. Shappley, M. Oppenhuizen, J. Mann, B. Reich and J. Osborn	1041
Efficacy of Bt Cotton Expressing Two Insecticidal Proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner on Selected Caterpillar Pests S. D. Stewart, K. S. Knighten and F. M. Davis	1043
Field and Greenhouse Performance of Bollworm on Bollgard II Cotton Genotypes R. E. Jackson, J. R. Bradley, Jr., A. D. Burd and J. W. Van Duyn	1048
Efficacy of Genetically Modified and Conventional Baculoviruses for Control of Bollworm (Helicoverpa Zea) (Boddie) in B.t. and Conventional Non-B.t. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) (L.) A. D. Turner, S. G. Turnipseed and M. J. Sullivan	1051
Heritable Tolerances of Cry1Ac in Lepidopteran Pests of Cotton D. V. Sumerford, W. L. Solomon and D. D. Hardee	1053
Performance and Insect Control Cost of Bollgard vs Conventional Varieties in Tennessee R. W. Seward, P. P. Shelby and S. C. Danehower	1055
Field Comparison of Genetically-Modified Cottons Containing One Strain (Bollgard) and Two Strains (Bollgard II) of Bacillus thuringiensis Kurstaki, R. L. Ridge, S. G. Turnipseed and M. J. Sullivan	1057
Survival of Helicoverpa Zea on Bt Sweet Corn R. C. Venette, P. K. O’Rourke, W. D. Hutchison, E. C. Burkness and D. A. Andow	1058
Malathion Symposium Introduction Dan A. Wolfenbarger	1060
The History and Theory of Malathion ULV Applications for Boll Weevil Control Robert G. Jones	1062
Effect of Malathion on Beneficial Insects P. G. Tillman and J. E. Mulrooney	1064
Application of Malathion ULV in Oils J. E. Mulrooney and L. A. Smith	1064
Malathion and Boll Weevil Eradication: Application Rates, Mistblower Effectiveness, and Bait Stick Quality Evaluation E. J. Villavaso, W. L. McGovern and J. E. Mulrooney	1067
Malathion Use in the Southeast Boll Weevil Eradication Program: A Bumpy Ride But the Destination is What Counts Gary A. Herzog, William R. Lambert, III and Phillip M. Roberts	1069
The Use of Malathion ULV in Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Programs Osama El-Lissy and Danny Kiser	1069
Plant-Derived Compounds Enhance Boll Weevil Response to Grandlure Gerald H. McKibben	1071
Eradication of the Boll Weevil in Missouri Michael L. Boyd	1072
Effect of Food Type and Feeding Rate on Boll Weevil Diapause D. W. Spurgeon and J. F. Esquivel	1073
Boll Weevil Eradication Update - Texas, 1999 Osama El-Lissy, Danny Kiser, Lindy Patton, Ray Frisbie, Tom Fuchs, Don Rummel, Roy Parker, Jeff Slosser, Don Dippel, J.R. Coppedge, Frank Carter, James Boston and Jack Hayes	1076
Pollen Feeding in Boll Weevils Gretchen D. Jones	1082
Monitoring Pheromone Production of Individual Boll Weevils D. W. Spurgeon and H. F. Marshall	1084
Capture Performance on Key Cotton Pest H. R. Mitchell and L. D. Hatfield	1087
Economics of a Karate Z/Tracer Conventional Cotton Program vs. Bt Cotton: Two Year Results A. L. Agi, L. S. Boykin, D. H. Anderson, W. H. Hendrix, III and M. A. Benson	1090
Effectiveness of Bollgard II Cotton Varieties Agianst Foliage and Fruit Feeding Caterpillars in Arkansas Charles T. Allen, Marwan S. Kharboutli, Chuck Capps and Larry D. Earnest	1093
Performance of Leverage 2.7 SE in the Mississippi Delta J. A. Hopkins, F. S. Donaldson, C.R. Bell and M. B. Sweeden	1094
Efficacy of Leverage on a Mixed Insect Population in Arkansas Eddy Cates	1097
Efficacy of Leverage on a Mixed Insect Population in Mississippi Jeff North	1099
Management of the Heliothine Complex Using Traditional and New Insecticides D. R. Johnson, G. M. Lorenz, L. M. Page and J. D. Hopkins	1100
Bollworm Management in Virginia Cotton: History, Strategies and Successes D. Ames Herbert, Jr.	1101
Impact of New Bollworm Insecticides on Natural Enemies in the Southern Rolling Plains of Texas C. G. Sansone and R. R. Minzenmayer	1104
Use of Alternative Chemistries for Cotton Bollworm Control in Areas with Potential Pyrethroid Resistance M. J. Sullivan, A. Dunlap and D. M. Robinson	1108
Reproductive Success and Damage Potential of Tobacco Thrips and Western Flower Thrips on Cotton Seedlings Joel Faircloth, J. R. Bradley, Jr. and John Van Duyn	1108
Thrips Resistance in Current Obsolete and Foreign Cotton Varieties M. W. Fairbanks, D. R. Johnson and T. J. Kring	1111
Early-Season Insect Control: Adage(TM) vs Recommended Standards Gary L. Lentz and Nancy B. Van Tol	1113
Management of Early Season Thrips in Ultra Narrow Row Cotton Phillip Roberts and Mike Bader	1115
Small Plot and Large-Scale Comparisons of Stink Bug Damage to Bollgard and Conventional Cotton in North Carolina J. S. Bacheler and D. W. Mott	1117
Monitoring for and Management of Stink Bugs J. K. Greene, Gary A. Herzog and Russell F. Mizell, III	1120
Monitoring Stink Bugs in Cotton in South Carolina M. E. Roof and Fran Arnette	1122
Managing Western Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus hesperus) in a Regional Context P. B. Goodell, S. D. Wright and M. W. F. Carter	1123
Insecticide Efficacy and Thresholds for Lygus hesperus in Arizona Peter C. Ellsworth	1125
Impact of Tarnished Plant Bugs on Cotton: Insecticide Efficacy and Varietal Response J. T. Robbins, F. A. Harris and R. E. Furr	1129
Comparison of Sampling Techniques for Tarnished Plant Bug and Predaceous Arthropods Marwan S. Kharboutli and Charles T. Allen	1131
Employment of Spatially Variable Insecticide Applications for Tarnished Plant Bug Control in Cotton J. L. Willers, J.K. Dupont, R. Campanella, M. R. Seal, K. B. Hood, J. Williams and D. Woodward	1133
Residual Activity of Capture 2EC and Other Pyrethroid Insecticides as Indicated by Control of Tobacco Budworm on Cotton D. W. Long, H. R. Mitchell and K. W. Johnson	1133
Effect of Nitrogen Fertility on Cotton-Whitefly Interactions J. L. Bi, G. R. Ballmer, N. C. Toscano and M. A. Madore	1135
A Boll Weevil Management Plan for the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas A. W. Scott, Jr. and M. J. Lukefahr	1142
Early-Season Thrips Control in UNR Cotton N. B. Van Tol and G. L. Lentz	1144
Preliminary Data of the Effects of Cotton Defoliant Chemicals on Bemisia Argentifolii (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) Mortality and its Parasitoid Survival S. M. Greenberg, Tong-Xian Liu, T. Sappington and G. W. Elzen	1147
The Evaluation of Biological Control of Spider Mites Ramana G. Colfer, Jay A. Rosenheim and Larry D. Godfrey	1151
Susceptibility of Normal-Leaf and Okra-Leaf Shape Cottons to Silverleaf Whitelies and Relationships to Trichome Densities C. C. Chu, E. T. Natwick and T. J. Henneberry	1157
Miticides for Two-Spotted Spider Mite Control M. C. Norton, J. W. Sites, C. T. Allen and M. S. Kharboutli	1158
Sweet Potato Whiteflies, Cotton Aphids and Sticky Cotton T. J. Henneberry, L. Forlow Jech and D. L. Hendrix	1160
Influence of Cotton Nitrogen Fertility on Cotton Aphid, Aphis Gossypii, Population Dynamics in California L. D. Godfrey, J. J. Cisneros, K. E. Keillor and R. B. Hutmacher	1162
Potential for Speeding up Aphid Fungus in Northeastern Arkansas D. Steinkraus, D. Wildy, D. Wells, M. Vingaard and G. Daniels	1165
Determining Boll Weevil Age with Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles T. W. Sappington, O. R. Zamora, D. R. Nelson and C. L. Fatland	1167
Cotton Insect Management Tools from Novartis Crop Protection Stephen M. White, D. Scott Lawson, John P. Koening and Ngoan Ngo	1171
Fate of Starved Boll Weevil Larvae as a Function of Larval Weight B. J. Reardon and D. W. Spurgeon	1174
Boll Weevil Infestations in the Northwest Texas High Plains: What’s the Problem? Johnna Patterson, J. F. Leser, Cherinell Riley and R. K. Haldenby	1176
Influence of Boll Weevil Eradication on Moth Activity in the Texas Rolling Plains M. N. Parajulee and J. E. Slosser	1180
Control of Lepidoptera with Intrepid(R) (Methoxyfenozide) Carlos A. Blanco, Jerry W. McGee, Larry C. Walton and Raymond Miller	1182
Late Season Control of Lepidoptera and its Impact on the Activity of Defoliants Raymond Miller, Carlos A. Blanco and Kris Havelka	1184
Performance of Leverage in the Southeast H. S. Young and S. N. Brown	1185
Field Evaluation and Leaf Bioassay of Selected Formulations and Doses of Aeriallyapplied Malathion Against Boll Weevil in New Mexico R. Nelson Foster, K. Chris Reuter, Stephanie Liesner, J. Breen Pierce, Tracy Carrillo and Joe Ellington	1188
Impact of Catolaccus Grandis Burks (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Field Releases on Cotton Boll Weevil in the Huasteca Region of Mexico J. Vargas-Camplis, E. Cortez M., L. A. Rodríguez del Bosque and R. J. Coleman	1195
Studies on the Mechanism(s) of Tobacco Budworm Resistance to Spinosad (Tracer(R)) H. P. Young, W. D. Bailey, C. F. Wyss, R. M. Roe, J. J. Sheets, L. L. Larson and T. C. Sparks	1197
Evaluation of Two Laboratory Strains of Tobacco Budworm Used For Artificial Infestation of Cotton P. D. Wilcox and G. R. McPherson	1200
Preliminary Evaluation of Reduced Rates of ULV Malathion W. Clint Hoffmann	1203
Aerial Electrostatic EC Malathion 5 for Boll Weevil Control I. W. Kirk, W. C. Hoffmann and S. J. Harp	1205
Effects of ULV Malathion on Tarnished Plant Bug in Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program Charles T. Allen and Marwan S. Kharboutli	1207
Effects of Conservation Tillage Systems on Cotton Aphid Populations K. Torrey, H. Fife, B. R. Leonard and R. L. Hutchinson	1208
Beet Armyworm Fecundity and Oviposition Behavior R. A. Tisdale and T. W. Sappington	1209
Effect of Steward on the Tarnished Plant Bug and the Big-Eyed Bug P. G. Tillman, Keith Wing, Glenn Hammes, Michael Connair and Laura Mulderig	1214
New Insecticides for Control of Tarnished Plant Bug - Results from Field and Cage Studies and Laboratory Bioassays T. G. Teague, N. P. Tugwell, S. Muthiah and J. M. Hornbeck	1214
Monitoring Cotton Plant Growth and Response Using Cotman to Evaluate Effects of Chemical Control of Cotton Aphid Tina Gray Teague, N. Philip Tugwell, Jr., Diana M. Danforth, Alan Beach and Mark J. Cochran	1217
Remote Sensing of Late-Season Pest Damage to Cotton & Wild Host Plants of Tarnished Plant Bug in the Mississippi Delta D. L. Sudbrink Jr., F. A. Harris, J. T. Robbins, G. L. Snodgrass and S. J. Thomson	1220
Control of Bollworms in Bt Cotton Using Gemstar LC Biological Insecticide D. A. Streett and J. E. Mulrooney	1223
Structure Activity Relationships of the Spinosyns Thomas C. Sparks, Gregory Durst and Thomas V. Worden	1225
Results from Two Years of an Experiment on Tarnished Plant Bug Control in Cotton Through Reduction in Numbers of Early-Season Wild Host Plants G. L. Snodgrass, W. P. Scott, D. D. Hardee and J. T. Robbins	1229
Improvements to the BWACT for Extending the Residual Control of Boll Weevils Thomas A. Plato, J. Scott Plato, James C. Plato and Stacy E. Plato	1234
Monitoring for Resistance to Cypermethrin in Budworm (H. Virescens) and Bollworm (H. Zea) and to Malathion in Boll Weevil in the Brazos River Bottom, Texas Patricia V. Pietrantonio, L. Nemec and J. Sronce	1236
Arizona Cotton Pesticide Use Data: Opportunities and Pitfalls G. K. Agnew, P. B. Baker and G. B. Frisvold	1239
Natural Enemies and Population Dynamics of the Cotton Aphid, Aphis Gossypii, in Georgia M. R. Abney, J. R. Ruberson, G. A. Herzog, T. J. Kring and D. C. Steinkraus	1246
Establishment of Pink Bollworm in Southeastern US Cotton: Laboratory Experiments and Model Validation R. C. Venette, S. E. Naranjo and W. D. Hutchison	1247
Lygus (Hesperus) and Aphid (Aphis Gossypii) Control in Cotton Steven D. Wright, Gerardo Banuelos and Brett Allen	1250
Cotton Insect Pheromone Traplines in Mississippi - 1999 Michael R. Williams	1252
Spider Mites on Arkansas Cotton: Wild Host Plants and Chemical Control Don Steinkraus and Jon Zawislak	1255
Sampling Predatory Insects and Spiders with the Beat Bucket Method in Texas and Arizona Allen E. Knutson, Steven E. Naranjo, L. Ted Wilson and Mark A. Muegge	1257
Comparison of PVC and Polyethylene Dispensers for Release of Grandlure for Boll Weevil Control D. R. Hall, D. I. Farman, D. A. Russell and T. Plato	1259
Wind-Directed Dispersal of Boll Weevils, Anthonomus Grandis (Boh.) J. K. Westbrook, D. W. Spurgeon, R. S. Eyster and P. G. Schleider	1261
Pink Bollworm Population Distributions in a Large Acreage of Genetically Engineered Cotton with Regard to Resistance Management Michelle Walters, Ronaldo Sequeira and Robert Staten	1265
Field Residual Activity of Selected Formulations of Malathion Against Catolaccus Grandis J. Breen Pierce, P. E. Yates and N. Foster	1266
Evaluation of Transgenic Cotton: Preliminary Results of the Coodetec-Cirad Program in Brazil P. Silvie, N. Petit, D. Gondim and E. Pires	1268
Effects of Fallow Vegetation Field Borders on Arthropods in Cotton and Soybean Fields in Eastern North Carolina Randy J. Outward, Clyde E. Sorenson and Peter T. Bromley	1270
Use of the BWACT as a System for Attraction and Control of Boll Weevils in Chihuahua, México Arturo Obando-Rodríguez, Sostenes Delgado-García, Juvencio González-García, Alvaro Anchondo-Nájera and José Eduardo Magaña Magaña	1274
Waxy Particles - The ‘Overcoat’ on Adult Whiteflies D. R. Nelson, J. S. Buckner and T. P. Freeman	1276
Aerial Sprays of Fipronil for Control of Boll Weevil I. W. Kirk, S. J. Harp and A. M. Wiese	1281
Insecticides for Early Season Tarnished Plant Bug Control Marwan S. Kharboutli, Charles T. Allen, Chuck Capps and Larry Earnest	1283
Effects of Registered and Experimental Insecticides on Lygus hesperus and on Selected Beneficial Arthropods in California Cotton K. E. Keillor and L. D. Godfrey	1286
Bollgard(TM) - Impact and Value to Oklahoma’s Cotton Industry 1996 - 1999 Miles Karner, A.L. Hutson and Jerry Goodson	1289
Host Plants of Boll Weevil Adults (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Mississippi Delta G. D. Jones and D. D. Hardee	1293
Differences in Polyol Accumulation and Honeydew Excretion in Sweetpotato Whitefly and Cotton Aphid D. L. Hendrix and T. J. Henneberry	1296
Applied Research with the BWACT to Determine Use Methods for the Paraguayan National Cotton Program Victor Gómez López	1299
Beet Armyworm Pheromone Trap Catches in Northwest Louisiana 1994 - 1999 S. Micinski and M. E. Farris	1302
Beneficial Arthropods in Conservation Tillage Cotton - A Three-Year Study Gloria S. McCutcheon	1303
Result from 2 ½ Years of BWACT Use in the Boll Weevil Suppression Program of Paraguay Oscar Guillermo Manessi	1306
Control of Cotton Insects With a Decis(R)/Phaser(R)/Ovasyn(R) IPM Program in Texas John Lublinkhof	1309
Effect of Hexaflumuron on Feeding Response and Reproduction of Adult Bollworm J. D. López, Jr. and M. A. Latheef	1316
Effect of Hexaflumuron on Feeding Response and Reproduction of Adult Boll Weevil J. D. Lopez, Jr., M. A. Latheef and Shenghuan Li	1321
Susceptibility of Arizona Whiteflies to Chloronicotinyl Insecticides and IGRs: New Developments in the 1999 Season Yongsheng Li, Timothy J. Dennehy, Xiaohua Li and Monika E. Wigert	1325
Comparison of Aerial and Ground Applied Thiamethoxam (Actara(TM) & Centric(TM)) for Control of Cotton Pests D. S. Lawson, N. Ngo and J. P. Koenig	1330
Artificial Pink Bollworm Egg Infestations and Larval Survival in NuCOTN 33B and Deltapine Cotton Cultivars in Arizona T. J. Henneberry, L. Forlow Jech, T. de la Torre, S. Faulconer and J. J. Hill	1333
1999 Field Trial Results with Pymetrozine (Fulfill(R)) and Thiamethoxam (Centric(TM)/actara(TM)) for Control of Cotton Aphid (Aphis Gossypii) John P. Koenig, D. Scott Lawson, Ngoan Ngo, Brad Minton, Chris Ishida, Kathleen Lovelace and Steve Moore	1335
Development, Survival, and Fecundity of the Beet Armyworm on Bt and Non-Bt Cotton U. Nava-Camberos and N. Ibarra-Frías	1337
Monitoring of the Pink Bollworm Susceptibility to the Bt Endotoxin (Cryiac) in Mexico U. Nava-Camberos, H. Sánchez-Galván, Eladio López-Ríos and J. L. Martínez-Carrillo	1339
Assessing Spider Mite Damage in Cotton Using Multispectral Remote Sensing G. J. Fitzgerald, S. J. Maas and W. R. DeTar	1342
Laboratory Toxicity of Insecticide Residues to Orius Insidiosus and Geocoris Punctipes G. W. Elzen	1345
Comparison of Insecticides for Cotton Aphid Control Larry Earnest, Charles T. Allen and Marwan S. Kharboutli	1348
Results of Insecticide Treatments on Early Season Thrips Population and Damage C. D. Capps, L. Earnest, C. Allen and M. Kharboutli	1349
Cotton Fleahopper Responses to Odors from Selected Host Plants K. R. Beerwinkle and H. F. Marshall	1350
Virus Production and Growth of Bollworm and Tobacco Budworm on Fruiting Structures of Cotton M. I. Ali, S. Y. Young and G. W. Felton	1353
Sunlight Protection for ULV Malathion? W. C. Hoffmann and I. W. Kirk	1356
Status of Bollworm, Helicoverpa Zea, Susceptiblilty to Pyrethroids in the Mid-South and Southeast: IRAC-US 1999 Update S. H. Martin, J. S. Bacheler, R. D. Bagwell, M. L. Boyd, B. L. Freeman, G. A. Herzog, D. R. Johnson, M. B. Layton, B. R. Leonard, N. Liu, G. T. Payne, P. V. Pietrantonio, M. E. Roof, R. Seward, R. K. Sprenkel, M. J. Sullivan, J. W. Van Duyn and J. R. Week	1359
DNA Differences Between Boll Weevils and Thurberia Weevils Richard L. Roehrdanz	1365
Evaluation of Different Release Strategies for Use in Pink Bollworm Sterile Release Programs Ernie Miller, Anna Lowe and Stacy Archuleta	1368
Significance of the Cotton Fleahopper as a Pest of Texas Coastal Bend Cotton Roy D. Parker, Emil D. "Trey" Bethke, III and Dan D. Fromme	1370
Tobacco Budworm: Fate of a Black-Body Dominant-Lethal Mutant Crossed with "Wild" Following Selection with Methyl Parathion Dan A. Wolfenbarger and A. C. Bartlett	1372
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