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The article reports that there are less challenges faced by cotton growers in California despite decline in cotton acres. Topics discussed include early plantation of crops to avoid problems of aphids and white flies, views of University of California's advisor Pete Goodell on issue of lygus and perennial flowering plant Alfalfa that can attract and hold lygus in the field.

The article discusses the significance of integrated pest management strategies for desert seed alfalfa production in California. It is noted seed alfalfa has been bothered by the peskiest of all pests, the Lygus hesperus. The University of California Cooperative Extension entomologist and director Eric Natwick noted that properly-controlled insecticide treatments would help minimize control costs and lygus bug control management.

The article reports on the research trial of Peter Ellsworth, University of Arizona integrated pest management specialist, on cotton insecticide. It states that the major focus of the research is side-by-side comparisons of insecticides on the market and products under development. It adds that Ellsworth is comparing potentially selective products that provide effective lygus and whitefly control that do not harm natural predator bugs.

The article discusses the degree day (DD) accumulation model to help farmers predict when the damaging plant bugs, lygus, move from infesting safflower to cotton in the U.S. It states that the model gives growers an advantage in treating lygus infestations in safflower. The model monitors the development of the lygus using the 660 DD witching hour when it is about to grow wings and to infest cotton plantations and needs to be controlled. Crops that host lygus include alfalfa and tomatoes.

The article reports on the impact of lygus, plant-sucking bugs on the alfalfa seed growers in San Joaquin Valley, California. It is stated that lygus is the key insect pest which is said as the most difficult to manage in alfalfa seed fields. It reveals that two species of lygus threatens the alfalfa seed, the Lygus herperus and Lygus elisus. Further, the adults and nymphs of the said species will feed on the alfalfa by attacking the reproductive organs and causes to reduce the seed viability.

The article focuses on the discussion of Peter Goodell, IPM advisor of the University of California Extension Service, on the connection between wet spring and the emergence of lygus in cotton plantation during the Pima Production Summit in Visalia, California. Goodell claimed that moisture can create improved conditions for lygus infestation. In his lygus prevention triangle model, he explained the availability of a host to the field, its proximity and the susceptibility of the cotton.

The article discusses the lygus cotton pest which has turned to be the most troublesome in Arizona. It ranks second in destroying the crop after boliworm/budworm complex which ranks number 1 cotton pest. Lygus is not accounting a significantly larger share of cotton yield losses, but it is claiming a bigger percentage from pest control costs of cotton growers. The reasons for spreading of Lygus are also mentioned and various ways to treat and deal with it are also mentioned. Some other pests related to cotton are also discussed.

Reports on the assessment of entomologist Pete Goodell about the impact of the rains occurring in May 2005 on the growth of the lygus population in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Density of lygus found in the area; Tendency of the plant bug to damage cotton crops; Encouragement for cotton growers to clean weedy farm fields to avoid the migration of lygus from weeds to cotton.

Reports on the topics discussed during the cotton industry Pima Production Summit 2004 held in Visalia, California. Toleration of some square loss from lygus to save on chemicals; Need for close monitoring of silverlead whitefly aphid populations; Simplified system of insecticide identification.

The article reports on the vacuuming of field by the strawberry growers to save their crops from damage due to nuisance lygus bugs and also informs that large tractor mounted equipments are used for vacuuming that was developed by local engineers and helps in removing bugs by sucking them.

The article discusses the strategies to control the yield loss of cotton due to lygus bugs, presented by University of California (UC) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Extension Advisor Pete Goodell at the 3rd international Lygus Symposium held in Scottsdale, Arizona, in November.

The article presents the views of Pete Goodell, entomologist from the University of California's (UC) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program, on the damages caused by lygus bug on San Joaquin Valley, California, cotton.

The article reports on the problem facing the cotton industry concerning the growth of lygus in California. It reveals that the condition is brought by the farming practices implemented by cotton growers that attracts lygus to feed in the plant which results to a decline in cotton produce. It states that farmers should assess the cause of the problem and develop strategies to control the plant-feeding insects.

The article reports about lygus, the no. 1 pest in Arizona cotton, as responsible for the losses of yields in farms in California. Lygus researchers advise growers on how to control form the attack of lygus in Arizona cotton by spraying from zero to two times per week. Researchers focuse their study on the development and refinement of action thresholds, termination rules for chemical control, and the selective chemistry development.

The article discusses the studies concerning lygus, plant-sucking bugs on Arizona and California cotton. It reveals on the first study, the researcher has focused on the movement of lygus wherein he expresses that the main lygus problem did not come from uncultivated areas. Moreover, on the other study, it involve using satellite remote sensing equipment to estimate the large population of lygus on 200,000 acres of tarweed.

Highlights the Bayer CropScience Cotton Technology seminar for pest control advisers in California. Production of damaging populations of lygus bugs from weeds; Effect of lygus on cotton farms; Need for cotton growers to be concern on lygus migration.

Reports that predicting the severity of a lygus or plant bug infestation in San Joaquin Valley, California cotton farms is an inexact science. Option to invest the money in a preventive approach, or gamble on wait-and-see strategy; Grower Antone Giannone sidedresses 14 pounds of aldicarb per acre and feels that the protection is worth the expense; Manipulating the dynamics of lygus movement by strip-cutting alfalfa.