This travel scholarship enable one researcher from the University of Queensland to attend the bi-annual Australian Cotton Research Conference to present the final results of the researchers study of the green vegetable bug (Nezara viridula or QVB) PhD to other cotton researchers, whilst maintaining a collaborative network of relationships with other Australian cotton researchers and remain familiar with cotton industry research on completion of the PhD. Additional extension of the project will be funded by the CRDC. Attendance at this conference allowed discussion aspects of this project with other researchers and a further experience with aspects of the cotton industry.