Insect Pests of Fruits, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops

1.Whitefly - Trialeurodes ricini Misra. ( Aleyrodidae : Hemiptera)

Damage

• Water soaked spots on the leaves which become yellow and dried.
  
• Colonies of whitefly on the under surface of leaves.
Bionomics

• The adults are pale yellow with white wings covered with waxy powder.
• It lays eggs in clusters on the under surface of leaves. Nymphal stage undergoes four instars.
• The life cycle is completed in 19-20 days during July-September.