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sweet-potato whitefly

DEFINITIONS OF: sweet-potato whitefly

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n a variety of whitefly

Types:
Bemisia tabaci, poinsettia strain, superbug
a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
cotton strain
feeds primarily on cotton
Type of:
whitefly
minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects
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