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The article discusses a survey concerning the cotton industry in the U.S. The survey revealed that the cotton yields in the U.S. decreased by 2.72 percent in 2013, with the total costs and loss for arthropods amounting to 716 million U.S. dollars. It also found that the number one pest of cotton is Lygus, which caused 0.788 percent in losses, followed by stink bugs and thrips.

The article presents some of the cotton insect pests that have caused losses across the Cotton Belt in the U.S. as compiles in the annual survey Cotton Insect Losses. It cites Lygus or plant bug as the No. 1 pest of cotton in 2012 which infested about 45.5% of U.S. acres in 2012. The No. 2 insect is stink bug that caused a 0.375% loss and infested about 39.1% of U.S. acres. No. 3 most damaging pest is the thrips which account of a loss of 0.374%.

The article discusses lygus management strategies reported by Pete Goodell of the University of California at the 3rd International Lygus Symposium held in Arizona. He shared that the worst lygus outbreak in California was in 1978 where significant yield reductions have been recorded. He advised application of insecticide to safflowers growing near cotton to reduce pest infestation. The development of the Lygus Simulation Training Environment software which can predict lygus outbreaks is noted.

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 threat of lygus bug in cotton plants in the San Joaquin Valley, California as of June 2012. Conditions in the valley in 2012 are not reportedly conducive for actual lygus damage. California integrated pest management (IPM) entomologist Pete Goodell believes that if farmers do find lygus, it may be coming from spitting distances. It is noted that a major influx of lygus may not be expected as overall cotton pressure has been in low levels through mid-June 2012.

The article offers information on the Cotton Insect Losses 2012 report compiled by Mike Williams, an entomologist. It says that the report shows 3.01 percent of cotton loss to insects in 2011 of the U.S. cotton industry which is considered the lowest percentage. According to the Williams, the decline could be attributed to improve pest management. It mentions the top cotton pest including lygus, thrips, and stink bugs.

The article reports on the manifestation of plant bugs or Lygus on cotton farms in North Carolina. It says that the said pests have not been a major problem for cotton producers in the state. Also, in the state, it only shows minimal plant bug resistance to insecticides. It adds that good plant bug activity should be provided at the materials listed in the 2009 North Carolina Agricultural Chemicals Manual.

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 highlights the preliminary survey of insect losses compiled by Mike Williams and presented at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio, Texas in 2009. Williams states the increase of cotton insect losses by 3.79% in 2008 and the use of boll weevil eradication to control insects. He states the most damaging cotton pests in agriculture including lygus, heliothines, and stink bugs.

The article discusses the results on the survey about cotton insect losses in the U.S. in 2008. Entomologist Mike Williams says that cotton insect losses totaled 3.79 percent of total yield. In 15 years of reported losses, losses range above five percent until 2000. Lygus or plant bug is the number one damaging cotton pest in the nation.

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 discusses the report by Cotton Insect Loss Estimates in 2006 depicting that bollworm-budworm complex has retained its rank as no. 1 cotton pest by reducing yields 0.874% in the farm. The survey shows that pegged lygus is in the no. 2 pest by 0.64%, followed by stink bugs by 0.418%, and thrips by 0.374%. The said report was presented during the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Mississippi. It presents that the total cost and loss to insects in 2006 was $1.018 billion.

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 reports that lygus has moved to the ranks as the most troublesome cotton pest in the U.S. According to Peter Ellsworth, entomologist at the University of Arizona, the promotion of the pest was by default. Lygus ranked in closed second to bollworm/budworm complex. Lygus has emerged as a sectionalized pest, according to entonologist Michael Williams.

The article reports on the emergence of lygus as a major cotton pest in the U.S. It is also rising as a sectionalized pest as different members of its species affect different regions of the country. Furthermore, pesticides like bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton, the eradication of boll weevil and the use of selective pesticides have been the attributed causes for its prominence.

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 research on lygus bugs and their potential impact on cotton. Static population of lygus bugs; Potential damage to cotton.

The article focuses on the plant bugs which are a threat to cotton. For most cotton producers, plant bugs (or Lygus) have not been a significant early season problem in North Carolina. With the introduction of Bollgard cotton in 1996, the former range of two to three or four late-season bollworm applications on conventional cotton has been reduced to an average of just under one application, resulting in greater late season plant bug damage to squares, blooms and small bolls. In most cases with conventional cotton, pyrethroid treatments usually reduce late season plant bugs to low enough levels that fruit damage is minimal.

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 discusses lygus gene incorporation in cotton by entomologist Scott Stewart to avoid plant bug treatments, and his comparison of untreated cotton, cotton with seed treatments and cotton containing the Lygus trait at Union City Field Day held by biotechnology firm Monsanto in Tennessee.

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 cotton insect losses in 2012. According to the author, 2012 cotton losses due to insects in the cotton growing region of the southern U.S. fell to its lowest level in 33 years. Topics include statistics related to the Cotton Insect Losses annual survey, an overview the region's most damaging insects, such as the lygus, or plant bug, and cotton-growing states most impacted by cotton insects, such as Louisiana which reported the highest losses in 2012.

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 discusses the Cotton Insect Losses 2012 report compiled by entomologist Mike Williams which states that U.S. cotton farmers claim that 3.01 percent of crops their total crops were lost to insects in 2011. Williams also states that the cost to control pests was up about 10 dollars an acre in 2011. The author mentions several types of pests which affect cotton crops including Lygus, Thrips, and Stink bugs.

The article offers information on the significance of gaming simulation to cotton growers in the U.S. The software is built by Red Hill Studios and conceived and commissioned by the University of Arizona to control lygus in crops and cotton. According to Tommy Glover, the simulation shows the interactions between crops and how it affects the movement of lygus.

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.

The article reports on the role played by lygus or the tarnished plant bugs on the decreased lint yields in North Carolina and Virginia. It has been noted that lygus are a threat to cotton plants from squaring to cutout and final boll set. It has been noted that the use of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)-containing cotton seed had lowered the demand to spray for bollworms and tobacco budworms. The utilization of pyrethroids and organophosphate insecticides before Bt-cotton kept tarnished plants low.

The article reports on the emergence of lygus as the main pest affecting cotton farms in the U.S. According to entomologist Michael Williams of the Mississippi State University, lygus is emerging as a sectionalized pest, with Lygus lineolaris infesting the Mid-South and Lygus hesperus infesting the western U.S. Plant bugs were observed to be more mobile than some other cotton pests.

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.

The article reports on preventing lygus from migrating into neighboring cotton fields. Lygus are not an economic pest in alfalfa because they don't feed on the vegetative parts of plants. But they're one of the primary pests in cotton. By leaving some of the alfalfa uncut, farmers are saving cotton fields. In controlled field trials, crude protein levels in the strips declined four percentage points--from 20.6 to 16.5 in 2000--and TDN declined three percentage points--from 52.7 to 49.6. These days farmers use several methods to leave strips.

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.