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Cotton Insect Pest Management, Agreement 13-589 TN Scott Stewart, The University of TennesseeJanuary 30th, 2017
Funding is used to partially support general extension activities such as scout training, moth trapping, resistance monitoring, insecticide testing and on-farm evaluations of various insect control technologies and treatment thresholds. Funding is also used to help support regional projects, several of which are also partially supported by core grants from Cotton Incorporated. Pheromone moth trapping for bollworm and tobacco budworm are improving the decision making of crop managers. In 2016, moth catches for each trap location were reported weekly on the UTcrops News Blog (http://news.utcrops.com/). This information and other IPM news updates were distributed to agents, producers, consultants and other agricultural professionals. Statewide, average moth catches for bollworm (i.e., corn earworm) were similar to average trap catches for the previous decade. As typical, statewide catches of tobacco budworm in 2016 were lower than bollworm and somewhat lower than catches typically observe
