Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small whitish plant-feeding insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having long wings and a white waxy body, and often damaging agricultural crops and ornamental plants.
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- noun Any of various small
insects of thefamily Aleyrodidae that have longwings , and awhite body ; often agarden pest
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- noun minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects
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Examples
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Use it to control insects and mites such as whitefly, aphids and scale.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Some of the wonderful kale of spring, Red Russian, is looking sad, wilted and worse for whitefly, and should be pulled.
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They were pinched from an infestation of whitefly.
Beard 2010
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My favorite hatch close to home is the catching smallmouth bass at night during the Susquehanna River whitefly hatch.
Religious Experience Bug Events Tim Romano 2007
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Be careful with the budding spray and anything that encourages lots of top growth, you're just asking for a whitefly invasion.
Garden Update #12: Tomatoes! What's New at Blogher Food? Kalyn Denny 2006
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The obvious main pest the farmers encounter is the whitefly
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Both might have used a dusting, but at least they weren't subject to whitefly and blight.
I is for Innocent Grafton, Sue 1992
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D. pusillus attacks a range of whitefly species, but within the systems employed in this study it can be considered a relative specialist because neither cowpea nor maize provided alternative hosts.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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In this regard, the effects of different cropping systems on the whitefly predator Delphastus pusillus (Le Conte) and on the combined action of the parasitoides Amitus aleurodinus Haldeman and Eretmocerus aleyrodiphaga
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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There were whitefly, tomato pests, and pests that damaged the potatoes.
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