{"id":349,"date":"2019-05-08T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/?p=349"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:48:14","slug":"scouting-thrips-in-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/2019\/05\/scouting-thrips-in-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting Thrips in Cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been looking at a lot of cotton fields emerging this time of year. Some of the earlier planted cotton already has two leaves on it and observations are being made to see how bad the thrips damage is and whether foliar treatment is warranted.<\/p>\n<p>Thrips management starts with planting date decisions, and in-furrow options.<\/p>\n<p>If in-furrow options were utilized, you can expect 3-4 weeks of control. If just the imidacloprid seed treatment is used, then you can expect about 2 weeks of control.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to scout cotton after emergence and <strong>up until 4-leaf stage<\/strong> for thrips. The <strong>threshold<\/strong> we use are<strong> 2-3 adult thrips and immatures present per plant <\/strong>This number should be achieved as an average from several plants being slapped onto a white piece of paper as a better way to view thrips.<\/p>\n<p>Adult tobacco thrips (most common) are almost blackish in appearance, while immatures are even smaller and creme colored.<\/p>\n<p>A common option for foliar insecticide if treatment is warranted is Orthene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-on-Paper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-on-Paper.jpg 482w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-on-Paper-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-on-Paper-108x138.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Pictured above is a close up of thrips on white paper<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-352\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-Scouting-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-Scouting-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-Scouting-106x138.jpg 106w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/Thrips-Scouting.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-351 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_0857-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_0857-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_0857-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/files\/2019\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_0857.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"text-align: left\">Scouting for thrips by slapping plants onto white paper \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Scott Carlson checking thrips counts<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been looking at a lot of cotton fields emerging this time of year. Some of the earlier planted cotton already has two leaves on it and observations are being made to see how bad the thrips damage is and whether foliar treatment is warranted. Thrips management starts with planting date decisions, and in-furrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton","category-entomology","category-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}