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Whiteflies
Name: Whiteflies
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Aleyrodoidea
Family: Aleyrodidae
Habitat:
Whiteflies can always be found on the undersides of the plant host leaves.
Food:
They have a broad range of hosts, such as cucurbits, tomatoes, peppers, cole crops, hibiscus, poinsettias, and feed on the leaf tissue.
Method of Travel:
Crawling, Flying
Prevention:
- Control your weeds – they’re often alternate hosts for the whitefly.
- When it comes to controlling whiteflies in the garden, conservation of native beneficial insects is a good plan of attack.
Steps to control:
- Good, long lasting, low-toxic methods of insect control can be done with Knock Down Indoor and Plant Flying & Crawling Insect Killer or other Knock Down products listed below.