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VOL. 21, NO. 9
Warren L. Multer, EA/IPM
July 5, 2001
 

PEST MANAGEMENT REPORT

NEWS ABOUT INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT IN GLASSCOCK, REAGAN AND UPTON COUNTIES

  

GENERAL SITUATION

Hot and Dry! Showers on Monday ranged from 0-1.5 inches with most of area receiving none. Fleahoppers remain the most important cotton insect with several fields treated. Several fields are now blooming.

SCOUT SAFETY

If you treat the field the scouts are checking and the re-entry interval has not expired, please let them know so they will not unnecessarily be exposed to the insecticides.

FLEAHOPPERS

Fleahoppers continue to be present in economic numbers in several area fields while others continue to fruit well. Fleahoppers ranged from 0-18 per 100 terminals and square sets ranged from 76%-92% this week. We are getting near the time in many fields that fleahopper control is no longer advised. If you have younger fields that have economic fleahopper populations you need to make treatment decisions promptly.

BOLLWORMS

Bollworm egglay has increased slightly in area fields. The highest number was 10 per 100 plants or 5000 per acre.

STINK BUGS

We are continuing to see stink bugs in cotton fields at numbers higher than I would like to see for this time of the season. Most are green stink bugs at this time.

BENEFICIAL PREDATORS

Beneficial Predators ranged from 0-28,000 per acre with spiders, damsel bugs, pirate bugs and big eyed bugs most common.

BOLL WEEVILS

No weevils were captured this week in area traps and no activity was found in fields.

PIXR

Several producers have been asking about applying PixR to their cotton. If we set a sufficient fruit load on most fields and do not receive additional rainfall, growth regulation will not be needed this year.
The irrigated fields with the highest available water (3+gallons/minute/acre) may require some growth regulator but most fields will not.

 
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KEY PREDATORS

Key Predators can be found in high numbers for this time of year. Damsel bugs, pirate bugs, big eyed bugs and spiders are most numerous at this time.

TURNROW MEETINGS
Tuesday July 11th - 9:00 a.m. Glasscock Co. Coop
Tuesday July 11th - 1:30 p.m. Midkiff Coop
Wednesday July 18th - 9:00 a.m. Glasscock Co. Coop
Wednesday July 181th - 1:30 p.m. Midkiff Coop

WEATHER DATA for the past week is included in the table below.

DATE
HIGH
TEMP
LOW
TEMP
RAIN
AVE
WIND
SPEED
SOIL
TEMP
6-28
96
68
0
10
79
6-29
96
75
0
10
79
6-30
96
70
0
8
79
7-1
97
67
0
6
81
7-2
87
67
0
7
81
7-3
90
61
0
7
80
7-4
92
65
0
6
81

 

HEAT UNITS averaged 22 per day the past week. Heat units since 5-1, 5-15 and 6-1 are compared with last year and a five year average in the table below.

DATES
5-1
5-15
6-1
2001
1214
1029.5
719.5
2000
1211
963
598.5
5 YEAR
AVERAGE
1180.10
966
656.8


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