Dr. Roberts and his team have been actively searching for cotton jassids since Christmas. They have been sampling winter annual weeds, cover crops, and many additional habitats, and have captured only a single jassid in late January this calendar year. They have been looking heavy around Tifton. If you see a UGA truck and some students out in the field with sweep nets, that’s what they’re doing. Normally, you’ll get a call from me before they show up, but sometimes I forget. Many of you are aware that we monitor yellow sticky cards for whiteflies every week, and in 2025, we observed jassids on these cards. They have also placed potted cotton plants on pivot points in several locations to serve as sentinel monitoring plants, and no jassids have been detected. What does this mean? Are we looking in all the wrong places? Did we observe winter mortality? We do anticipate we will have jassids in 2026. The question is when. We are hopeful 2026 will be like 2025 in that jassids infest cotton during July and August. Growers who managed jassids in 2025 handled the pest, and growers will only be more prepared as we face this challenge in 2026. We can assure you that we will continue to be looking for jassids as we move forward. It will be important to monitor known host plants, such as okra, in the coming weeks. The initial detections in 2025 occurred on okra, and it seems plausible that this is where we will initially detect jassids in 2026. Time shall tell. If you happen to stumble across some, please let me know.