| single and multiple in-season measurements as indicators of at-harvest cotton boll damage caused by verde plant bug (hemiptera: miridae). | the ability to monitor verde plant bug, creontiades signatus distant (hemiptera: miridae), and the progression of cotton, gossypium hirsutum l., boll responses to feeding and associated cotton boll rot provided opportunity to assess if single in-season measurements had value in evaluating at-harvest damage to bolls and if multiple in-season measurements enhanced their combined use. one in-season verde plant bug density measurement, three in-season plant injury measurements, and two at-harvest da ... | 2013 | 23865196 |
| verde plant bug (hemiptera: miridae) feeding injury to cotton bolls characterized by boll age, size, and damage ratings. | the verde plant bug, creontiades signatus (distant), has been present in south texas for several years but has more recently been documented as an economic threat to cultivated cotton, (gossypium hirsutum l. our studies over 2 yr (2009 and 2010) and two locations (weslaco and corpus christi, tx) investigated feeding-injury of the verde plant bug to a range of cotton boll age classes defined by boll diameter and accumulated degree-days (anthesis to the time of infesting) for first-position cotton ... | 2013 | 23448031 |
| sampling strategies for square and boll-feeding plant bugs (hemiptera: miridae) occurring on cotton. | sampling methods for square and boll-feeding plant bugs (hemiptera: miridae) occurring on cotton, gossypium hirsutum l., were compared with the intent to assess if one approach was viable for two species occurring from early-season squaring to late bloom in 25 fields located along the coastal cotton growing region of south texas. cotton fleaphopper, pseudatomoscelis seriatus (reuter), damages squares early-season and dominated collections using five sampling methods (approximately 99% of insects ... | 2012 | 22812128 |
| plant growth stage-specific injury and economic injury level for verde plant bug, creontiades signatus (hemiptera: miridae), on cotton: effect of bloom period of infestation. | verde plant bugs, creontiades signatus distant (hemiptera: miridae), were released onto caged cotton, cossypium hirsutum l., for a 1-wk period to characterize the effects of insect density and bloom period of infestation on cotton injury and yield in 2011 and 2012, corpus christi, tx. when plants were infested during early bloom (10-11 nodes above first white flower), a linear decline in fruit retention and boll load and a linear increase in boll injury were detected as verde plant bug infestati ... | 2013 | 24224249 |