Bring together Lygus experts from around the country to discuss Lygus biology, ecology, and management.
Collect the body of knowledge from this conference and capture it in a proceedings.
Bring industry, CE, and AES together to exchange ideas on the management of Lygus. There is a strong interest in various commodity groups in co-sponsoring this conference.

Proceedings were published and are available at http://www.uckac.edu/cottonipm/proceedings.htm