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Byline: Jack Bacheler, North Carolina Extension Entomologist Thrips 'season' over for most: Thrips beat some folks up (cotton seedlings, that is) pretty bad this year, with most damage hitting producers [...]

Byline: Jack Bacheler, North Carolina, Extension Entomologist As many cotton producers know from experience, and as tests confirm, the upper Southeast could well be designated the 'Thrips Capitol of the [...]

Byline: Jack S. BachelerNorth Carolina Extension Entomologist With our high humidity and generally light insecticide usage, cotton aphids will hopefully be only a minor problem here again in 2007. For [...]

Byline: Jack BachelerNorth Carolina Extension Entomologist As North Carolina cotton producers can attest, we and our neighbors from Virginia must contend with higher thrips levels and potential damage than anywhere [...]

Spider mites have historically been a minor problem in North Carolina in terms of overall acres treated during the past decade, with the state's producers treating only 1.3 percent of [...]

Entomologists are skilled at explaining insect pest outbreaks - during and at the end of the growing season. In hindsight, the causes of last year's insect problems make sense. Although [...]

Unlike the case with bollworms, North Carolina cotton producers almost always fare better than their southern and Mid-South counterparts when it comes to both early- and late-season tobacco budworms on [...]

With our high humidity and generally light insecticide usage, cotton aphids will again, hopefully, be only a minor problem here in 2005. However, this 'minor pest' status is not much [...]

For most cotton producers, plant bugs (or Lygus) have not been a significant early season problem in North Carolina, with the exception of some areas in our far eastern counties [...]

Byline: Jack Bacheler, North Carolina State University Most cotton producers probably would not think of the Carolinas and Virginia as routinely leading the rest of the Cotton Belt in thrips [...]

Entomologists seem to be routinely bad at predicting insect outbreaks prior to the growing season, especially when it comes to cotton. We are far more comfortable (and less helpful) with [...]