A New Egg Sampling Plan for Pink Bollworm Reduced Insecticide Use by 35 Percent

During the past two years we developed an egg sampling plan for the pink bollworm (PBW) to provide a more accurate index of moth (target stage) activity than conventional larval sampling. The plan requires that only the presence or absence of eggs laid on bolls be determined to decide when insectici...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hutchinson, Bill, Beasley, Bud, Henneberry, Tom, Martin, Jeanette
Other Authors: Western Cotton Research Laboratory
Language:en_US
Published: College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) 1987
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/204493