The two-spotted cotton leafhopper was confirmed last summer across the Cotton Belt and damaged some Southeast farmers.
After a late arrival in 2025, this pest is expected to hit earlier and harder next season. Here’s how to get ready.
Right now, multiple states are battling a tiny insect that’s threatening cotton crops in our country, including here in Texas ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Cotton is Georgia’s top row crop, worth nearly $1 billion a year. But a new invasive insect is threatening that livelihood – and experts say the ripple effects ...
KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful - a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after ...
Cotton jassids, found in Georgia in July, pose a threat to several major crops, including cotton and peanuts. The cotton jassid, an invasive insect native to India, is spreading in the state, posing a ...
Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing large numbers of ...
BHATINDA - Indian farmers are for the first time abandoning genetically modified cotton after a devastating pest attack ravaged their fields, sowing doubts about the crop technology that had been ...
There aren't many stories about south-of-the-border intestinal distress that end with a scholarly paper about cotton pest eradication published in the journal Science. Bruce Tabashnik has spent much ...