Cottongrowers in central Queensland (CQ) enjoy no advantage over southern counterparts in the range of insect pests that attack their crop. Heliothis species, rough and pink-spotted boll worms, and mirids are major pests which damage the terminal buds and fruiting structures of cotton plants, potentially causing radical loss of yield and profit. While mites and tipworm generally are less active than in the south, a wider planting window means that adult forms of the soil insects that attack early-planted cotton seedlings are available to attack late-planted ones.