Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 10/2/17


Cotton farmers are encouraged to use follow-up sprays to control thrips even if they think they’re not seeing problems with resistance, and a new tool can help them determine when to make those sprays. The Thrips Information Predictor developed by George Kennedy, a professor of entomology at N.C. State, uses weather data to make predictions of thrips dispersal, timing and seedling susceptibility occurring at the same time. Reisig, N.C State Extension entomologist, said it is a valuable tool because it allows cotton farmers to prioritize when and where to make follow-up foliar sprays to control thrips.

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