 All right, I'm Ron Smith, Extension etymologist here with Dr. Scott Graham. He's a new etymologist for cotton, soybeans, and peanuts in Alabama with Extension Service. Today, we want to talk about grasshoppers just a few minutes because they have been, we've had more calls about the grasshopper pest than anything else this spring. This is nothing totally new. Actually, we've been dealing with this grasshopper issue for 10 or more years. It really began when we started burning down fields and planted it with reduced tillage, as you can see in the field behind us here. In mild winters, we'll have maybe less than normal rainfall. There's sandier soils in the state, which basically includes about everything from Montgomery South. We're just getting a lot of old winning grasshoppers. They spend the winter in a little pod or a little tube down in the soil and they come out in the spring, but they don't come out at the same time. They emerge over a six or eight week period. We never know when they're going to feed on our seedling cotton or not. The most susceptible stage is when the cotton is in the crook stage or the cotyledon stage. You may find a lot of grasshoppers in the field. We don't have a threshold for it. Probably never will have because some years they'll be out there for weeks and never damage a plant. In other years, you'll come out and overnight, they've wiped out your stand, you'll have to replant. We've got a couple of places like that this year. It's just the risk that a farmer wants to assume, but we're suggesting spraying for grasshoppers. If you'll notice the deeper sands and the certain fields will have a propensity to have more grasshoppers every spring. We need to put a particular key in on those fields and we need to include a grasshopper adult aside and kill them, even though they may be in imitators, kill them when we burn down our product. We'll put some demiline in there, which as long as there's an insect growth regulator, it would take care of those that come out later. We're just suggesting if a grower don't want to assume a lot of risk, they're going to have to include grasshoppers as a pest of cotton to deal with and reduce tillage fields and particularly the deep sands of the state. That would include also Cherokee County, those areas up in Northeastern Alabama. What's the best adult aside for? That's a good question. The best adult aside is when they're imitators, about anything labeled for cotton is a very adequate treatment on imitator grasshoppers, but after about 30 plus days from time they emerge, they become adults and adults are very, very difficult to control. There's really only one product we're recommending right now for adult grasshoppers and that is acetate orthene at three-quarters of a pound. Another point we'd like to make on grasshoppers is when you're scouting the field and walking around and looking for them, you need to make sure you're walking through the entire field. Some pests maybe we can get away with just making a mortar spray, but often the grasshoppers are probably going to be throughout the entire field, so you need to make sure you're walking and looking and observing for grasshoppers and be prepared to spray the whole field and not just towards.