MIAMI (CBS4) - Miami-Dade County wants to get the word out about a new invasive and pesky insect that has become a threat to landscape plants but most importantly, experts say don't overreact. The ...
Whiteflies are one of the most destructive pests of vegetable crops and ornamental plants in the world. If you have a garden, chances are, you have dealt with them before. But what many people don't ...
Q: I would appreciate your advice on how to control/kill whiteflies. I have battled this pest in my greenhouse when growing seedlings and could not get them under control in my garden this past summer ...
Q:Every year, my Meyer lemon produces a few hundred lemons. Every summer, it is home to many thousands of whiteflies that create a sooty mess on the leaves and fruit of the tree. The tree remains ...
The scent of tomato leaves wafting through the air reminds me there is nothing quite like the taste of a freshly picked, vine-ripened tomato, a highlight of my summer. I was so disappointed last year ...
Silly of me, wasn’t it, to hope that the winter would have any impact on the whiteflies that attack my citrus, gardenias and other plants. In my yard, they’re back, earlier and more annoying than ever ...
DEAR GARDEN COACH: We have a plum tree in the backyard that gets horrible whitefly every summer. Everything underneath the tree gets all sticky, and all the plants near it get whitefly, too. We are ...
Whitefly is a generalist herbivore, which feeds on many plant species, but it may also specialize in feeding on greenhouse crops. Tomato and cucumber are the most common crops in the Finnish ...
One of the world’s worst agricultural pests corrupts the alarm signals of plants, disarming those that otherwise might prepare for an assault. This might help explain why the silverleaf whitefly is so ...