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AgriLife Extension shares cotton jassid guidance for green industry

Adult and nymph two-spot cotton leafhoppers

Texas A&M AgriLife scientists continue to assess potential impacts and prepare strategies to control a new invasive pest – the two-spot cotton leafhopper, also known as the cotton jassid – that is impacting Texas’ ornamental nursery industry and threatens future cotton production.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas A&M AgriLife Research experts in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, Department of Horticultural Sciences and Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology are actively working with stakeholders in the Texas nursery and ornamental industry as well as the cotton industry.