Trap Crops as a Component of a Community-Wide Pink Bollworm Control Program

Gary W. Thacker, Leon Moore, and Peter C. Ellsworth


 
ABSTRACT

Trap crops were employed against the pink bollworm (PBW) as a part of a community-wide IPM program in Pima County, AZ. Levels of PBW larvae in the early squares of the trap crops were extraordinarily high, indicating that the trap crops were drawing overwintered PBW moths in from wide areas. This concentrated the overwintered moths in small areas where they could be easily and economically destroyed.



Reprinted from 1993 Proceedings Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 1046 - 1047
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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