Virus diseases that have emerged in the past two decades limit the production of important
vegetable crops in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions worldwide, and many of the …

Emergence of insect-transmitted plant viruses over the past 10–20 years has been
disproportionately driven by two so-called supervectors: the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, and the …

Plants protect themselves with a vast array of toxic secondary metabolites, yet most plants
serve as food for insects. The evolutionary processes that allow herbivorous insects to resist …

The highly polyphagous Old World cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera is a quarantine
agricultural pest for the American continents. Historically H. armigera is thought to have …

Bemisia tabaci has long been considered a complex species. It rose to global prominence in
the 1980s owing to the global invasion by the commonly named B biotype. Since then, the …

Identifying species boundaries within morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species
complexes is often contentious. For the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)(Hemiptera …

Unintentional species invasions are instigated by human-mediated dispersal of individuals
beyond their native range. Although most introductions fail at the first hurdle, a select subset …

A literature survey identified 403 primary research publications that investigated the
ecological effects of invasive alien insects and/or the mechanisms underlying these effects …

Phloem-feeding insects feed on plant phloem using their stylets. While ingesting phloem
sap, these insects secrete saliva to circumvent plant defenses. Previous studies have shown …

The worldwide distribution and extensive genetic diversity of the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci,
has long been recognized. However, the levels of separation within B. tabaci and the …