Abstract:A small-plot field study was conducted in a commercial cotton field near Austwell, Tex., to measure the effects of 5 treatments on survival of eggs and freshly hatched larvae of the tobacco budworm. The eggs were obtained from a pyrethroid-susceptible strain of tobacco budworm (ICI laboratory colony maintained at the Texas A&M University Research and Extension Center at Corpus Christi). Treatments were compared in 5-row by 50-ft plots of cotton planted 28 Apr on 30-inch rows. Each treatment was replicated … Show more
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