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means that selection pressure across the Cotton Belt would be greatly in- 

 creased during the insecticidal phases of an eradication attempt. There 

 is no doubt that complete beltwide elimination of the boll weevil as a key 

 pest would be a giant stride for North /American agriculture. On the other 

 hand, a beltwide attempt at elimination which was anything less than complete- 

 ly successful could result in the fabrication of an organophosphorus-resistant 

 "superduper" pest. 



68. , and Adkisson, P. L. 1977. Cotton insect pest management. Annu. Rev. 

 Entomol. 22: 451-81. 



Although most discussion of integrated control and pest management center on 

 the developments of the past decade, the genesis of ecologically oriented 

 pest control actually taces back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth 

 centuries. Truly great historical figures of American entomology such as 

 R. V. Riley, J. H. Comstock, L. 0. Howard and W. D. Hunter were among those 

 who molded the foundations of modem insect pest management as it is recog- 

 nized in cotton and other agricultural crops today. The first boll weevil 

 management system was fully developed and tested by 1920. The recent trend 

 toward more sophisticated insect pest management, which embraces as a primary 

 component the utilization of natural man.i^ulatable factors, is a mere revival 

 ^ of .the application of concepts that were well advanced by the early part of 

 this centnry. 



69. , and Alraand, L. K. 1968. Evaluation of the 1967 reproductive-diapause 

 boll weevil control program of the Texas High Plains. Tex. Agric. Exp. 

 Stn. Misc. Publ. MP-904, 4 pp. 



The 1967 High Plains reproductive-diapause boll weevil control program was 

 initiated September 8 and terminated Novamber 7. A total of 501,024 acres of 

 cotton was sprayed with aefrial applications of ultra-low-volume iralathion and 



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