S. G. Turnipseed

TL;DR: Damage to bolls of transgenic Bt cotton by southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.), and tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, was evaluated in field-cage studies and should be particularly useful in the development of treatment thresholds for the aforementioned pests where insecticide use is limited.

TL;DR: This study validated current recommendations for management of pentatomid in cotton, demonstrated the necessity of threshold use for stink bugs in transgenic cultivars expressing endotoxin from B. thuringiensis, and provided insight into further development of management options for pentatomids in the crop.

TL;DR: Comparisons of foliage-dwelling arthropod populations on Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) (Bollgard) cotton and non-Bt (conventional) cotton season-long in South Carolina, Georgia, northern Alabama, and southern Alabama show that Bt cotton has no significant adverse impacts on the nontarget arthropode populations studied and, compared with insecticide-treated non-Tt cotton, Bt Cotton supports higher natural enemy populations with significant

TL;DR: If toxin expression in future Bollgard II varieties remains consistent with that of Monsanto 15985, supplemental insecticides will be reduced, and may be eliminated for lepidopterous pests in South Carolina.

TL;DR: The 3 methods were equally effective in sampling adults of geocorids and nabids and Larvae of P. scabra were sampled more effectively by the sweep-net method, and D-Vac samples consistently gave very low population estimates of all lepidopterous species.