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Keywords: continued importance of insecticides in intensive agricultural production systems, pivotal role of chemical management in IPM programs, marketing of pesticides, increased need/fewer workers, fundamental principles of insecticide management, university and extension faculty, resistance management programs are needed to stabilize IPM in intensive agricultural systems, resistance management activities, Arizona’s extension-based resistance management program, the whitefly crisis in Arizona cotton, chlororonicotinyl insecticides in Arizona vegetables and melons, transgenic cotton expressing a Bt toxin: can it be sustained?, reductions in average susceptibility to imidacloprid, impediments and misconceptions affecting the future success of resistance management, industry should solve resistance problems, resistance monitoring is a waste of time and resources, critical role of education and partnership