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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 02, 2007

The white fly. My searches ended up here: Trialeurodes vaporariorum. Is it this? The leaves' undersides are infested with these white things.

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stownes Mansfield, TX(Zone 8a) Apr 03, 2007

Wow! I don't know what it is but surely one of the experts will be along.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 04, 2007

Thanks. Yes I hope someone will chip in sooner or later with information.

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Apr 04, 2007

dinu, i am no expert but, yes, that looks like white fly to me.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 04, 2007

I will have to take the word of a Floridian seriously! Reason: Mysore flora and Florida flora are no dissimilar and hence also the pests associated with it, perhaps.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Apr 05, 2007

Dinu, there are so many Whiteflies, but it sure looks like the Greenhouse Whitefly. I can't find if they exist in India or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Was that picture taken with bino-zoom technology? I guess that requires two hands. :)
What kind of plant is that, sometimes it helps to ID.


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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 06, 2007

Ha ha.... No it was not with my bino-zoom technique. This was using a simple macro setting . It has affected the cotton plant (that is the leaf seen) in my mother's house. The white fly is also in our yard and I'll have to track them down where they 'reside'.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Apr 06, 2007

Greenhouse Whiteflies/ T. vaporariorum do eat Cotton plants, so that's consistent

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 06, 2007

Almost all the leaves' undersides were infested and touching them would leave us all white! So much was the infestation. Thanks claypa.

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