Whitefly and Virus Management

Current Research

We are evaluating cultural and chemical controls for whiteflies and viruses and developing evidence-based recommendations for growers.

General Management

Publications

Combining Cultural Tactics and Insecticides for the Management of the Sweetpotato Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, and Viruses in Yellow Squash

Improving Whitefly Management 

Bemisia tabaci on Vegetables in the Southern United States: Incidence, Impact, and Management

Cultural Controls

Publications

Evaluating Acylsugars-Mediated Resistance in Tomato against Bemisia tabaci and Transmission of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus

Integrated Management of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus and its Whitefly Vector in Tomato

Biological Control

Publications

Laboratory virulence of entomopathogenic nematodes to the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci 

Can Generalist Predators Control Bemisia tabaci?

Biopesticides

Publications

Environmental Tolerance of Entomopathogenic Fungi: A New Strain of Cordyceps javanica Isolated from a Whitefly Epizootic Versus Commercial Fungal Strains