​​Preventing Sticky Cotton Caused by Whitefly & Aphid​

July 2014 | 32 min., 31 sec.
by Peter B. Goodell
University of California

Summary

​This presentation will help cotton growers, consultants and Pest Control Advisers in California and Arizona understand the importance of managing whiteflies and aphids to prevent sticky cotton. The high quality of cotton in the California and Arizona requires that it be free of all contaminates, especially sugars deposited by aphids and whiteflies. Three major areas will be discussed: 1. The problem to spinning mill customers caused by sugars on cotton lint, 2. Identification, scouting, assessing and managing sweet potato whitely, biotype B, and 3. Identification, scouting, assessing and managing cotton aphid. By the end of the presentation the practitioner should know how to identify, scout, evaluate populations and use the best management practices to prevent sticky cotton caused by aphid and whitefly.

About the Presenter

Peter B. GoodellPeter B. Goodell has been a Cooperative Extension Advisor with the University of California, Cooperative Extension, and Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program since 1981. He has served as IPM Extension Coordinator, Interim Director and Associate Director for IPM in Agriculture. Dr. Goodell’s IPM research and extension program has focused on development and implementation of IPM on field crops in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Working to develop partnerships with NGOs, state and Federal agencies, this effort seeks to create community based pest management programs which address the reduction of risks to the environment and people by pests and pest management activities. He has been recognized nationally and internationally for these efforts to scale up IPM to landscape and ecosystem levels. As a third generation Californian, Dr. Goodell grew up in southern California in a large family. He graduated with his BA from San Francisco State (1974), spent three years as an independent pest management scout and consultant, and returned to UC Riverside for his MSci (1978) and PhD (1986) in Entomology/Nematology. He has been recognized by US News and World Report as one of 10 Indispensable Americans (1995), by the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America for Outstanding IPM Program (2001), by the 6th International IPM Symposium for Recognition of an Outstanding IPM Team (2009) and by Department of Pesticide Regulation’s IPM Innovator Award (2010). He serves on the board of directors for Association of Applied IPM Ecologists and the Stakeholder Committee of the European Union IPM Project, PURE.​

Contact Information:
Email: pbgoodell@ucanr.edu

​Additional Resources

Whitefly Identification Sheet – UC Division Agricultural and Natural Resources

Management of Silverleaf Whitefly Manual – USDA

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