Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. whiteflies infestation plant The first sign of a budding whitefly infestation might be a host of tiny white flying insects rising ...

I check most of my plants nearly every day to see how they are faring. I monitor soil moisture, growth progress and signs of disease or insect problems. A couple of days ago, I spotted a moving tiny ...

Use these tips to naturally get rid of whiteflies on plants, whether they are located indoors or outdoors. Whiteflies are small, rapid breeders that can weaken or kill plants by feeding on their sap.

Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high. Pale, squishy, and smaller than a sesame seed, these sap-sucking bugs terrorize more than 600 plant species, infecting ...

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 ...

The silverleaf whitefly is a major crop pest in the tropics and subtropics. After studying its genome, an INRAE researcher and a CNRS researcher identified 49 plant genes transferred to the insect’s ...

A small, aphid-like insect called a whitefly has plant DNA lurking in its genome—and it’s among the first known instances of gene transfer from plant to insect, reports Heidi Ledford for Nature. The ...

Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from plants into their genome. A Chinese research team, publishing March 25th in the journal Cell, reveals ...

In a remarkable discovery, paleontologists have unearthed “extremely rare” tiny fossils that are shedding light on New Zealand's past. These minuscule fossils belong to whiteflies — a type of insects ...

Use these tips to naturally get rid of whiteflies on plants, whether they are located indoors or outdoors. If you see tiny white bugs on plants, clambering over leaves in a group or flying in a swarm ...