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Whitefly

Index Whitefly

Whiteflies are small Hemipterans that typically feed on the undersides of plant leaves. [1]

84 relations: African cassava mosaic virus, Aleurocanthus woglumi, Aleyrodes proletella, Animal, Anthocoridae, Aphid, Arrhenotoky, Arthropod, Arthropod leg, Bean calico mosaic virus, Beauveria bassiana, Beetle, Begomovirus, Biopesticide, Brassica, Caterpillar, Chrysopidae, Clothianidin, Coccinellidae, Companion planting, Crop protection, Dinotefuran, Ecdysis, Endopterygota, Family (biology), Geminiviridae, Geocoris, Gracility, Greenhouse, Greenhouse whitefly, Halteres, Hemiptera, Holometabolism, Homeostasis, Honeydew (secretion), Hummingbird bush, Imago, Imidacloprid, Insect, Insecticidal soap, Insecticide, Instar, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Intercropping, Isaria fumosorosea, Larva, Leafhopper, List of whitefly species, Mealybug, Metamorphosis, ..., Mold, Monarda, Moth, Nabidae, Neonicotinoid, Operculum (animal), Parasitoid, Parthenogenesis, Pest (organism), Pest control, Pesticide, Phloem, Phytoseiidae, Predation, Psylloidea, Pupa, Saliva, Salvia elegans, Scale insect, Silverleaf whitefly, Sooty mold, Spider mite, Sternorrhyncha, Thiamethoxam, Thrips, Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, Tropaeolum, Turgor pressure, United States Department of Agriculture, University of Florida, Vector (epidemiology), Whirligig beetle, Whitefly, Zinnia. Expand index (34 more) »

African cassava mosaic virus

African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV, ICTV approved acronym) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae that may cause either a mosaic appearance to plant leaves, or chlorosis, a loss of chlorophyll.

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Aleurocanthus woglumi

Aleurocanthus woglumi is a species of whitefly in the family Aleyrodidae.

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Aleyrodes proletella

The Cabbage Whitefly (Aleyrodes proletella) is a species of whitefly from the Aleyrodidae family.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Anthocoridae

Anthocoridae is a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs.

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Aphid

Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.

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Arrhenotoky

Arrhenotoky (from Greek -τόκος -tókos "birth of -" + ἄρρην árrhēn "male person"), also known as arrhenotokous parthenogenesis, is a form of parthenogenesis in which unfertilized eggs develop into males.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Arthropod leg

The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking.

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Bean calico mosaic virus

Bean calico mosaic virus (BCaMV or BCMoV) is a plant virus transmitted by whiteflies that infects bean genera and species within the families Fabaceae, Malvaceae, and Solanaceae.

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Beauveria bassiana

Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the entomopathogenic fungi.

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Beetle

Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.

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Begomovirus

The genus Begomovirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Geminiviridae.

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Biopesticide

Biopesticides, a contraction of 'biological pesticides', include several types of pest management intervention: through predatory, parasitic, or chemical relationships.

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Brassica

Brassica is a genus of plants in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).

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Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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Chrysopidae

Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera.

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Clothianidin

Clothianidin is an insecticide developed by Takeda Chemical Industries and Bayer AG.

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Coccinellidae

Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from 0.8 to 18 mm (0.03 to 0.71 inches).

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Companion planting

Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of a number of different reasons, including pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial creatures, maximizing use of space, and to otherwise increase crop productivity.

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Crop protection

Crop protection is the science and practice of managing plant diseases, weeds and other pests (both vertebrate and invertebrate)that damage agricultural crops and forestry.

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Dinotefuran

Dinotefuran is an insecticide of the neonicotinoid class developed by Mitsui Chemicals for control of insect pests such as aphids, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, leafminers, sawflies, mole cricket, white grubs, lacebugs, billbugs, beetles, mealybugs, and cockroaches on leafy vegetables, in residential and commercial buildings, and for professional turf management.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Endopterygota

Endopterygota, also known as Holometabola, is a superorder of insects within the infraclass Neoptera that go through distinctive larval, pupal, and adult stages.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Geminiviridae

Geminiviridae is a family of plant viruses.

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Geocoris

Geocoris is a genus of insects in the family Geocoridae (although in the past the geocorids were subsumed as a subfamily under the family "Lygaeidae").

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Gracility

Gracility is slenderness, the condition of being gracile, which means slender.

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Greenhouse

A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse) is a structure with walls and roof made mainly of transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown.

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Greenhouse whitefly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum, commonly known as the glasshouse whitefly or greenhouse whitefly, is an insect that inhabits the world's temperate regions.

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Halteres

In dipterous insects, halteres (singular halter or haltere) are minute dumbbell-shaped organs which have been modified from hindwings to provide a means of encoding body rotations during flight.

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Hemiptera

The Hemiptera or true bugs are an order of insects comprising some 50,000 to 80,000 species of groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, and shield bugs.

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Holometabolism

Holometabolism, also called complete metamorphosis, is a form of insect development which includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa and imago or adult.

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Homeostasis

Homeostasis is the tendency of organisms to auto-regulate and maintain their internal environment in a stable state.

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Honeydew (secretion)

Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.

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Hummingbird bush

Hummingbird bush is a colloquial name and may refer to.

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Imago

In biology, the imago is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it also is called the imaginal stage, the stage in which the insect attains maturity.

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Imidacloprid

Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide that acts as an insect neurotoxin and belongs to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system of insects.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Insecticidal soap

Insecticidal soap is based on potassium fatty acids and is used to control many plant pests.

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Insecticide

Insecticides are substances used to kill insects.

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached.

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Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an agriculture, life science, pathogen, and invasive species research facility in Florida affiliated with University of Florida.

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Intercropping

Intercropping is a multiple cropping practice involving growing two or more crops in proximity.

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Isaria fumosorosea

Isaria fumosorosea is an entomopathogenic fungus, formerly known as Paecilomyces fumosoroseus.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Leafhopper

A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae.

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List of whitefly species

Aleyrodidae is a large hemipteran family comprising the whiteflies.

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Mealybug

Mealybugs are insects in the family Pseudococcidae, unarmored scale insects found in moist, warm climates.

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

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Mold

A mold or mould (is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae.

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Monarda

Monarda is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

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Moth

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.

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Nabidae

The insect family Nabidae contains the damsel bugs.

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Neonicotinoid

Neonicotinoids (sometimes shortened to neonics) are a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine.

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Operculum (animal)

An operculum is an anatomical feature, a stiff structure resembling a lid or a small door that opens and closes, and thus controls contact between the outside world and an internal part of an animal.

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Parasitoid

A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host and at the host's expense, and which sooner or later kills it.

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Parthenogenesis

Parthenogenesis (from the Greek label + label) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization.

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Pest (organism)

A pest is a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns including crops, livestock, and forestry.

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Pest control

Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest, a member of the animal kingdom that impacts adversely on human activities.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.

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Phloem

In vascular plants, phloem is the living tissue that transports the soluble organic compounds made during photosynthesis and known as photosynthates, in particular the sugar sucrose, to parts of the plant where needed.

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Phytoseiidae

The Phytoseiidae are a family of mites which feed on thrips and other mite species.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Psylloidea

Psylloidea is a superfamily of true bugs, including the jumping plant lice and others which have recently been classified as distinct families.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Saliva

Saliva is a watery substance formed in the mouths of animals, secreted by the salivary glands.

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Salvia elegans

Salvia elegans, commonly called pineapple sage or tangerine sage, is a perennial shrub native to Mexico and Guatemala.

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Scale insect

The scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha.

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Silverleaf whitefly

The silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia tabaci, also informally referred to as the sweet potato whitefly) is one of several species of whitefly that are currently important agricultural pests.

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Sooty mold

Sooty mold is a collective term for different Ascomycete fungi, which includes many genera, commonly Cladosporium and Alternaria.

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Spider mite

Spider mites are members of the Acari (mite) family Tetranychidae, which includes about 1,200 species.

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Sternorrhyncha

The Sternorrhyncha suborder of the Hemiptera contains the aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects, groups which were traditionally included in the order Homoptera.

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Thiamethoxam

Thiamethoxam is a systemic insecticide in the class of neonicotinoids.

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Thrips

Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (most are 1 mm long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts.

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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is a DNA virus from the genus Begomovirus and the family Geminiviridae.

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Tropaeolum

Tropaeolum, commonly known as nasturtium (literally "nose-twister" or "nose-tweaker"), is a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

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Turgor pressure

Turgor pressure is the force within the cell that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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Vector (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism; most agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as intermediate parasites or microbes, but it could be an inanimate medium of infection such as dust particles.

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Whirligig beetle

The whirligig beetles are a family (Gyrinidae) of water beetles that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim underwater when threatened.

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Whitefly

Whiteflies are small Hemipterans that typically feed on the undersides of plant leaves.

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Zinnia

Zinnia is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitefly

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