Although airplane applications are not particularly effective on first-generation borers feeding in the whorl, they work pretty well on the second generation, if properly timed. As the second generation approaches, I'll provide some more detail about handling problems with corn borers. The cotton crop is really progressing as well as the weather allows. Unfortunately, some fields show this great a variability from one side to the other. That part of the crop which got a rain this week is beginning to shank-up and grow.
Insect situations are still a mixed bag as well.
There are a few fields being sprayed for Thrips, but with cotton growing well and with weather as warm as it has been, that activity is at a minimum this year. There are still scattered reports of small larvae being found in terminals of seedling cotton. Loopers, garden webworms, yellow striped armyworms and a few small cutworms have been found and reported in seedling cotton. None of these were in high enough numbers to warrant need for treatment. Trap captures in the pheromone traps are fairly low.