WHAT IS THE  WHITE FLIES AND DAMAGES THAT PRODUCES.

 

  The white fly insects are small, about 2mm. When adults have wings triangular white, and covered by a dusty wax.

The white flies are putting eggs on the back of the leaf

   It is a plague very important and difficult to control because the flies white attacks the plants debilitating the leaf, by its wounds made for the penetration in the vegetable, places in the leaf by detras and by means of pedículo it is fed on the substrate. Reason why there is a smaller amount of nutrients for the plant, a smaller development and falling leaf.
Apart from the direct damage caused by white fly exist indirect or produced by fungi, bacterium and viruses. That means that the plant be treated with certain chemicals can be harmful to our environment and home.

This insect is so small that gets confused easily, there being applied others insecticides that are not the correct ones.

   Originally is an insect N. America And S. Asia and Africa while Spain appeared in 1968 in Malaga province and then spread across the area citrus around the year 1971. His cycle develops in the summer, but due to our Mediterranean climate can be all year.

   To control and extermination of this insect is somewhat complicated because of their potential and their reproduction cycles or who are four stages: egg, larvae,  pustule and adult.

Some species of white fly form long filaments where the females put the eggs

 The eggs deposited by the female of the species and on the same sheet fertilized by the male lasts about 9 days after larva becomes grouping together in a circle around the sheet. When it comes to the form of pupae, has legs but no wings, the more spread around, as the wind or whatever watering, and so on. You can change position to another plant. In the state of the adult male is that he is dedicated to revolotear around the plant and the female looking for new places to put their future.

The adult flies always They flutter around eggs

   The cycle of the whitefly is very short, from egg to adult requires about 28 days, so in a single season occur several generations.

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