Do Stink Bugs in Corn Impact Cotton?

In the southeast United States, a field of corn is often closely associated with a field of cotton. The objective of this on-farm study was to examine and compare the spatiotemporal patterns and dispersal of the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.), and the brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), in these corn-cotton farmscapes. GS+ Version 9 was used to generate interpolated estimates of stink bug density by inverse distance weighting. Interpolated stink bug population raster maps were constructed using ArcMap Version 9.2. Altogether, the spatiotemporal analyses for the farmscapes demonstrated that some N. viridula and E. servus disperse into cotton.