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Orange Spiny Whitefly, Aleurocanthus spiniferus Quaintance (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

EDIS, 2005
Orange spiny whitefly, Aleurocanthus spiniferus Quaintance, is a native pest of citrus in tropical Asia. In the early 1920s, pest outbreak infestation levels caused Japan to begin a biological control program.
Jamba Gyeltshen, Amanda Hodges, Greg S. Hodges   +2 more
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Companion planting with French marigolds protects tomato plants from glasshouse whiteflies through the emission of airborne limonene.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Horticulturalists and gardeners in temperate regions often claim that planting marigolds next to tomato plants protects the tomatoes from the glasshouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood). If shown to hold true, this technique could be used in
Niall J A Conboy, Thomas McDaniel, Adam Ormerod, David George, Angharad M R Gatehouse, Ellie Wharton, Paul Donohoe, Rhiannon Curtis, Colin R Tosh   +8 more
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Resistance to Cassava Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) among Eastern and Southern African Elite Cassava Genotypes

Insects
Cassava whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, directly damages cassava leaves by feeding on phloem, causing chlorosis and abscission, leading to a yield loss of up to 50%. The pest also causes indirect damage through sooty mold formation.
Wamani Sam, Opio Samuel Morris, Omara Tom, Ocitti Patrick, John Colvin, Omongo Christopher Abu   +5 more
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Effect of Temperature on Imago Life Span, Fecundity and Reproduction Rate of Greenhouse Whitefly (T. vaporariorum W.) [PDF]

Pesticidi i Fitomedicina, 2006
Imago life span, fecundity and survival rate of the different developmental stages and average abundance of female offspring of greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) were studied at three constant (18, 22 and 27°C) and one alternating (18/7°C ...
Pantelija Perić
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Whiteflies management

, 2014
“Whiteflies” is the common name of an insect group (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) which has around 1556 described species (Martin & Mound, 2007), although only about thirty species have been mentioned in Spain which are included in the table 1 (Martin et al., 2000). The origin of this group of insects is very varied, as its current spread.
Beitia, Francisco J., Hernández-Suárez, Estrella   +1 more
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Resistance induction in chrysanthemum due to silicon application in the management of whitefly Bemisia tabaci Biotype B (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Revista de Ciências Agroambientais, 2015
Whitefly Bemisia tabaci biotype B (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a key pest in many cultures worldwide, among them chrysanthemum. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether silicon application in chrysanthemum plants can induce resistance to whitefly ...
Bruno Almeida Melo, Jair Campos Moraes, Lívia Mendes Carvalho   +2 more
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On the occurrence of greenhouse whitefly and strawberry whitefly in Tochigi prefecture

Proceedings of the Kanto-Tosan Plant Protection Society, 1976
KATAYAMA, E., AIDA, K., HONGO, T., ICHIDA, K.   +3 more
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A bacterial symbiont and a plant virus enhance insect fitness by inducing physical defenses against fungal parasites. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Wang TY, Hong JS, Song SX, Wei KH, Chen NF, Li LR, Jiang X, Zhong GJ, Ma ZY, Yang Y, Liu T, Wang C, Luan JB.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Creating resistance to the whitefly <i>Bemisia tabaci</i> in cassava through RNAi-mediated targeting of multiple insect metabolic processes. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Narayanan N, Swamy RAR, Gehan J, Jones T, Lazar S, Wintraube D, Yakir E, Hasson O, Lampert A, Colvin J, Taylor NJ, Morin S, Malka O.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Is resistance futile? Life-history costs of escaping parasitoid attack in a major crop pest. [PDF]

J Econ Entomol
McGowan MC, Boulton RA.
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