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Jun 2019The companion visor guide to “Making Whitefly & Predator Counts”. This portable guide provides instructions for sampling both whiteflies and their predators. Tables provide a guide for making spray decisions to effectively manage whiteflies. English version.
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Jan 2019Understanding levels of key predators in the field can help you make more confident whitefly spray decisions. New research has identified critical levels of predators that impact economic spray decisions for whiteflies. By monitoring the number of key predators in the field when whiteflies are at or approaching standard whitefly thresholds, pest managers may confidently defer sprays, or alternately, may wish to advance a spray prior to reaching threshold, based on predator population levels.
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Jul 2014Learn more about the relationship between 4 key predators and whitefly bio-control in the cotton system.
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Jun 2014Orius spp. (Family Anthocoridae) are valuable natural enemies in cotton and abundant throughout the season. These predators have a large impact on various cotton pests and can be used as an indicator of the natural enemy community's ability to suppress whiteflies.
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Jun 2014Beetles in the genus Collops are valuable predators in cotton. These generalist predators prey upon many cotton pests and can be used as an indicator of the natural enemy community's ability to suppress whiteflies.