Whiteflies with Dr. Catharine Mannion
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Dr. Catharine Mannion
Professor University of Florida, Tropical Research and Education Center.
Department – Entomology & Nematology
Specialty – Ornamental Plant Entomology
Ph.D., 1992: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL – Entomology and Nematology
http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/personnel_faculty_cmannion.shtml
What are whiteflies
Order and family and does it matter to a PMP
Biology
Order and family and does it matter to a PMP
Biology Taxonomy
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily Aleyrodoidea
Family Aleyrodidae (Whiteflies)
Life Cycle
Biotypes Q B(silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii)
Control methods
Natural Insecticides
Pyrethroids Insecticides
Biological Insecticides
Neonicotinoids Insecticides
They include imidacloprid, acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, nithiazine, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam.
Fate of systemics in the soil.
Protecting beneficial & Pollinators
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