PINK BOLLWORM1 MOTH DISPERSAL IN AND AROUND COTTON, SUGAR BEETS, AND ALFALFA2

Abstract

Huber oil traps baited with gossyplure were used to compare early season pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), moth catches in beets and nearby cotton, and catches throughout the growing season in alfalfa and cotton. Differences between trap catches in sugar beets and cotton were generally not significant at the 0.05 level. Traps in cotton caught significantly more moths than those in alfalfa during most of the season. Late in the season there were no significant differences between the two groups. Traps placed in nearby non-crop and fallow areas generally caught fewer moths than those in cotton, alfalfa or sugar beets.