Citation:

RL Ridgway. 1969. Control of the bollworm and tobacco budworm through conservation and augmentation of predaceous insects. Pages 127-144. In: EV Komarek Sr (editor). Tall Timbers Conference

on Ecological Animal Control by Habitat Management, February 27-28, 1969, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida, Number 1, 244 pages.

Keywords: cotton bollworm Heliothis zea, conservation and augmentation of insect predators, cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus, boll weevil Anthonomus grandis, pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella, insecticide resistance, population dynamics of the pest, economic threshold, predators as a mechanism for regulating pest population, big-eyed bug Geocoris, damsel bug Nabis, flower bugs Orius, green lacewing Chrysopa, lady beetles Hippodamia, Colemegilla, insecticide effect on predators, microbial insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis, slow release granular insecticide, release of green lacewings for bollworm control, supplemental feeding sugar to augment parasitoids and predators