We rely on them to keep our plants and lawns green, trees healthy, and to protect hedges and other plantings from pests including the dreaded spiraling whitefly. But pesticides, herbicides and ...

The whitefly is back. Though it looks like the sort of adorable insect that would star in a Dreamworks film, the humble whitefly is actually a god-awful invasive species that will stop at nothing to ...

One of the world’s worst agricultural pests corrupts the alarm signals of plants, disarming those that otherwise might prepare for an assault. This might help explain why the silverleaf whitefly is so ...