How to control sucking pests jassids and thrips in young cotton (kapas)?

Sucking pests like jassids, aphids, and thrips hit cotton mainly in the first 60 days, causing leaf curling, yellowing, and silvering. Start with seed treatment using imidacloprid or thiamethoxam, which protects seedlings for the first few weeks. Monitor with yellow and blue sticky traps and avoid early heavy nitrogen. If pests cross threshold, spray a recommended neonicotinoid or other approved insecticide and rotate groups, conserving natural enemies like ladybird beetles. Do not spray pyrethroids early as they can flare whitefly later. After about 60 to 70 days the BT plant and natural enemies usually balance things. Follow your state agriculture university or KVK spray schedule for current approved molecules and doses for your area.

A complementary point, blue sticky traps are better for thrips and yellow for jassids and whitefly, so put up both colours. Counting the catch each week tells you which pest is rising before the leaf damage becomes visible. Confirm the action threshold and current molecules with your KVK, as Haryana revises the cotton advisory most seasons.