White Flies are Harmful To Plants

Scientific Name:

Trialeurodes vaporariorum , and Bemisia tabaci

Nickname: Greenhouse Whitefly, Sweet Potato Whitefly

Appearance/Size:

Adults are 1-2 mm in length, with yellowish bodies and four wax-coated wings held near parallel to the leaf surface.

Prefered Habitat:

They like fair weather, extreme hot or cold will kill them. Adults are normally found on the underside of leaves.

Reproduction:

Females are capable of mating less than 24 hours after hatching and most frequen-tly lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves. Eggs are pale yellow in colour, before turning grey prior to hatching.

Eat:

Crop damage through direct feeding, in-serting their stylet into leaf veins. As a by-product, honeydew is excreted a second, major source of damage. The third and most harmful characteristic is the ability of adults to transmit several plant viruses.

The Cure: Eliminator

The best sure way to rid yourself of these pest is to use Drmoli's Eliminator. Just spray pest and plants, problem gone.