Abstract
During the years immediately following World War II, cotton pest control in California’s San Joaquin Valley was dominated by the organochlorine insecticides (e.g., DDT, toxaphene, endrin). The persistence and high toxicity of these materials made them effective killers of the two key pests, Lygus hesperus Knight and Heliothis zea (Boddie). As a result, normally only one or two treatments per season were needed to effect satisfactory pest control at relatively low cost.
This paper relates entirely to cotton pest control in the San Joaquin Valley where approximately 90 per cent of California’s cotton is grown.
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van den Bosch, R., Leigh, T.F., Falcon, L.A., Stern, V.M., Gonzales, D., Hagen, K.S. (1971). The Developing Program of Integrated Control of Cotton Pests in California. In: Huffaker, C.B. (eds) Biological Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6531-4_17
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