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Cabbage whitefly
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A. M. Varela, icipe
Is this a Minor Pest?
Yes
Minor Pest Title
Whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci)
Minor Pest Description
Whiteflies feed on leaves of eggplant sucking plant sap. Whiteflies are vectors of the mosaic virus reported to occasionally affect eggplant in West Africa.
Minor Pest What to do.
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Apply neem products. Neem products have given control of the tobacco whitefly on eggplant. In the Caribbean, weekly sprays of neem seed powder (50g/l), and 2% neem oil gave good protection against this pest (Ostermann and Dreyer, 1995).
In Sudan, commercial neem products and home-made products (neem seed water extract 50g/l) reduced the populations of Bemisia tabaci on eggplant and potato (El Shafie, 2001).
Minor Pest Position
11
Minor Pest Firstcontent
116
Pest Type
insect
Host Plants
Eggplant
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