Sweetpotato whitefly: prospects for biological control

The damage to desert agricultural crops in Southern California and Arizona in fall-winter 1991 by the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is unprecedented in the history of the South west. Damage estimates exceed $200 million for California alone with the complete loss...

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Main Authors: Michael P. Parrelta, Tom Bellows, Raymond J. Gill, Judith K. Brown, Kevin M. Heinz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources 1992-01-01
Series:California Agriculture
Online Access:http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v046n01p25