Stinkbugs have recently re-emerged as an important late season sucking pest complex of cotton in Australia. The 'stinkbug' complex includes green vegetable bug (GVB), Nezara viridula (Linnaeus), green stink bug (GSB), Plautia affinis (Dallas), red banded shield bug (RBSB), Piezodorus hybneri (Gmelin), brown stink bug (BSB), Dictyotus caenosus (Westwood), harlequin bug (HRLQB), Tectocoris diophalmus (Thunberg) and cotton stainer bug (CSB), Dysdercus sidae (Montrouzier). In conventional cotton use of broad-spectrum insecticides to manage Helicoverpa spp. effectively controlled the stinkbugs, but with the introduction of single gene transgenic cotton (INGARD) the use of broad-spectrum insecticides to control Helicoverpa spp. has been reduced (Fitt 2000). Further reductions in insecticides is expected with the release of two-gene transgenic cotton and increased uptake of IPM which may allow the stinkbug problem to develop further. Over this past cotton season, chemical sprays were required against GVB in different valleys including the South Burnett and Macquarie. GVB is also a problem in USA cotton and has been studied thoroughly (Barbour et al. 1990, Lee et al 1999, Bundy and McPherson 2000, Bacheler and Mott 2000, Greene et al. 2001). In Australian cotton, the potential of GVB and other stinkbugs to damage crops has not been investigated thoroughly until the initiation of this project. In this paper we present an account of some Australian research on stinkbug damage and sampling and propose action thresholds for the bugs.