Donald R. Cook

TL;DR: Concentrations in flowering structures were well below defined levels of concern thought to cause acute mortality in honey bees, and levels in soil collected during early flowering from insecticide seed treatment trials were generally not well correlated with neonicotinoid concentrations in flowers, pollen, or nectar.

TL;DR: Several species of thrips are known to infest cotton seedlings in the United States and constitute one of the most common insect pest challenges for growers, with effects on crop injury and management practices currently available to growers.

TL;DR: In this paper, nine direct and indirect sampling methods were evaluated for bias, precision, and efficiency in cotton throughout the Mid-South during 2005 and 2006, including sweep-net, drop-cloth, dirty-square, and dirty-bloom sampling methods.

TL;DR: The bioassays suggest that high levels of resistance to thiamethoxam occur in cotton aphid throughout the midsouthern United States, and flonicamid and sulfoxaflor need to be incorporated into a rotation strategy to preserve their efficacy against Cotton aphid.