Citation:

Vernon M Stern. 1969. Interplanting alfalfa in cotton to control Lygus bugs and other insect pests. Pages 55-69. 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: cultural control, intercropping, cotton, alfalfa, early season insecticide control in cotton against Lygus reduces predators and parasitoids of the bollworm Heliothis zea, cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni, beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua, biocontrol natural enemy conservation, dispersal between fields, biocontrol augmentation, insect collecting machine, interplanting alfalfa in cotton to attract and trap Lygus bugs, mark-recapture using fluorescent pigment and ultra-violet light