Whiteflies go through egg, nymph, and adult stages. You likely won’t see their teeny eggs on the undersides of leaves. Once hatched, the nymph stages are about 1/32-inch long and attach to the ...

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 ...

Fight passion plant's whiteflies. By New York Times Aug 30, 2006. Q: My purple passion plant has sticky white things attached to the leaves, mostly on the underside.

Some plants were infested with whiteflies and some left alone. After several days, the air from each chamber was passed into similar chambers containing a healthy tomato plant and left for 24 hours.

If you have whiteflies on indoor plants, head to the nearest garden center, where you will find several brands of bug-killing soaps. Note that soaps designed for cleaning things are similar to ...

Discovery that a whitefly uses a stolen plant gene to elude its host’s defences may offer a route to new pest-control strategies. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

Whiteflies are tiny insects that affect many different types of plants, including trees, vegetables, ornamental plants, and houseplants. “Multiple generations can be present at once, so they can ...