The sweet potato (cotton) whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a major agricultural pest in various fields
and vegetable crops worldwide. It causes extensive damage by direct feeding on plants …

Whiteflies (Bemisia spp.) and the viruses they vector cause extensive losses to many
horticultural and agronomic crops throughout the tropics and subtropics. These losses have …

Conclusions How do Whiteflies Select their Feeding and Oviposition Substrate?–Is there a
Relationship between Host-plant Preference and Host-plant Suitability?–Can We Explain …

Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) lies at the core of the current efforts to reduce
the use of deleterious chemicals in greenhouse agriculture. IPM strategies rely on the early …

Virus infection frequently modifies plant phenotypes, leading to changes in behaviour and
performance of their insect vectors in a way that transmission is enhanced, although this …

Abstract Fifty years ago, Stern, Smith, van den Bosch and Hagen outlined a simple but
sophisticated idea of pest control predicated on the complementary action of chemical and …

Várias espécies de insetos e ácaros se alimentam de folhas de soja. Entre os artrópodes
que causam desfolha direta, as lagartas (principalmente os noctuídeos) e os coleópteros …

Susceptible plants infected by single or multiple viruses can differ in symptoms and other
alterations influencing virus dissemination. Furthermore, behavior of viruliferous vectors may …

This monograph provides information on the basic and applied research on the morphology,
taxonomy, biology, ecology and behaviour of the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). It is …

A summary of knowledge about B. tabaci autecology is given following some 50 years of
research of this pest. The parameters that have been studied were developmental duration …