whitefly in English

noun
1
a minute winged bug covered with powdery white wax, damaging plants by feeding on the sap and coating them with honeydew.
Mealybugs, aphids and whiteflies also eliminate honeydew, creating ideal conditions for sooty mold.

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1. Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits.

2. The Whitefly or Mealywing bugs: Bioecology, Host Specificity and Management

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4. Aphids are sap-sucking insects related to psyllids, whitefly, scale insects and mealybugs

5. The distribution of whitefly nymph on the plants of 223 summer soybean varieties was in vestigaled.

6. This form of Crooking is usually irregular, having been caused by thrip, mite, and whitefly feeding

7. Whitefly longevity and fecundity are the shortest and the lowest on treated cucumber plants with only phosphorus fertilizer.

8. The red-Banded whitefly, Tetraleurodes perseae Nakahara (Nakahara, 1995), was first discovered in San Diego in 1982 (Rose & Wolley, 1984a, 1984b) and was described in 1995.This whitefly is probably native to Latin America and specimens are known from the Caribbean, Central America, Florida, and Mexico (Nakahara, 1995).

9. Encarsia formosa is an example of a parasitoid that is used Augmentatively, with periodic innoculative or inundative releases into greenhouses prone to whitefly populations