Bug checkers are an integral part of getting cotton crops to full yield

By Hayley Skelly-Kennedy
Updated December 7 2017 - 4:04pm, first published December 1 2017 - 1:30pm
Tim Richards, Michael Castor & Associates, showing a group of this season's bug checkers what to look for.
Tim Richards, Michael Castor & Associates, showing a group of this season's bug checkers what to look for.

With the cotton season well and truly in full swing, many university students are swapping lecture theatres for the paddock and are out in force with their beat sheets and sweep nets looking for bugs.

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