Chapter 25. PM Ives and AB Hearn. 1987. The Siratac system for cotton pest management in Australia. Pages 251-269.

Keywords: development of the SIRATAC System, origins of SIRTAC, some of the tactics available for various strategies in integrated pest management, regular economic pests of cotton in Eastern Australia, content of the SIRATAC system, field sampling, computer processing, dynamic thresholds for Heliothis larvae, implementation, organizational structure and procedures, responsibility for SIRATAC operations at various stages of implementation, practical aspects of implementation, system evaluation, acceptance by growers, progress toward achievement of goals, expansion of SIRATAC through nine seasons, results in paired comparison trials