Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 3/22/16

Tobacco thrips resistant to the neonicotinoid class of insecticides is a problem that won’t go away. Cotton farmers must remain proactive. “We preached in the past a 'one and done’ strategy,” said North Carolina State University Extension Entomologist Dominic Reisig at a cotton production meeting in Rocky Mount.

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