Committee Members

Alabama - Dr. Ronald H. Smith Arkansas - Dr. Don Johnson Arizona - Dr. Leon Moore California - Dr. Peter B. Goodell Florida - Dr. R. K. Sprenkel Georgia - Dr. William R. Lambert, III Louisiana - Dr. James S. Tynes Mississippi - Dr. Robert B. Head Missouri - Dr. Flernoy G. Jones and Dr. Ray Nabors New Mexico - Dr. Charles Ward North Carolina - Dr. Jack Bachelor Oklahoma - Dr. Richard Price and Dr. Miles Kerner South Carolina - Dr. Mitchell Roof Tennessee - Dr. Richard E. Caron Texas - Dr. Ray Frisbie Virginia - Dr. James Roberts, Sr.

The information was collected from county agents, research entomologists, private consultants and Extension specialists.

Data is presented for a Beltwide summary and for each state and sub-area within the state in alphabetical order.

Data collection was partially funded by a grant from The Cotton Foundation.

Loss estimates are based on surveys of knowledgeable professionals from cotton growing states. Since these data are estimates, reports involving acreage and yield may vary slightly from USDA Crop Reporting service figures. Total acreage estimated is 0.66 percent off from December 1988 crop reporting figures and yield estimates are off by 4.6 percent.

All losses and costs are distributed over all reporting acreage and do not reflect the costs over infested acres.

Boll weevils and Heliothis sp. are estimated to have reduced yields by 1.66 and 1.71 percent, respectively, and are far greater than losses from other species. Losses from other species are given in Table 1. Combined losses reported are 6.76 percent for a dollar value of $283,505,796 (based on 60 cents per acre, the total of losses plus control costs exceeds $368 million.