IMPACT OF AN INTERNET INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR REPORTINGHELIOTHINE MOTH TRAP CATCHES IN AR, MS, AND LA

摘要

Entomologists and computer specialists from the University of Arkansas have begun a multi-state on-line effort to coordinatethe detection of pests on cotton crops throughout the Southern region of the United States. With the cooperation of B. RogerLeonard, Northeast Research Station, Louisiana State University Ag Center, and Michael R. Williams, ExtensionEntomologist, Mississippi State University, data was reported during the 2001 cotton season using an Internet databasesystem developed at the University of Arkansas. Thirteen Arkansas counties and the states of Louisiana and Mississippiparticipated in the second year of the program reporting 10652 total observations. The focus of the program continues to bethe tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens and the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, although additional species scoutedinclude the Armyworm (Pseudaletia unipuncta), the Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), the Beet armyworm(Spodoptera exigua), the Southwestern Corn Borer, and the European Corn Borer.