Photos of Bemisia tabaci

Bemisia tabaci PHOTOS

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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Lance S. Osborne

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a2-Bemisia on hibiscus

a3m-Bemisia on hibiscus

a1m - Adult Bemisia

e1m Bemisia eggs

The darker the color the closer they are to hatching.

e2m-Bemisia eggs and the crawler stage of the whitefly. The immature stages of whiteflies are called many names. One term is an instar another term is scale. Whiteflies have an egg, 4 instars and adult.

Egg→1st stage larva (crawler) →2nd→3rd→4th stage (puparium)→adult

e3m- Bemisia eggs. The darker the eggs the closer they are to hatching.

s1m- The white colored stages are what is leftover once the adults have emerged. Notice there is a T-shaped "rip" which allows the adult to emerge.

s2m-The is the cast skin of the last instar or puparium from which the adult emerged and the larger scale is the last instar scale or puparium.

s4m-cast "skin" of the puparium

s5m- pupal stages. The very small scales are the first instars or crawler stages.

s6m a group of 4th instars

s7m-You can see almost all stages in this photo including an example of a puparium with the adult almost ready to emerge. The wings are clearly visable.

s8m-An example of a puparium with the adult almost ready to emerge. The wings are clearly visable.

s9m- In this photo you can see the eyes of the adult that is about to emerge.

s10m-

In most cases the eyes look red and the stage is often called the red-eyed stage.

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p1m

Encarsia sophia

p2m

Encarsia sophia parasitized whitefly (black in color)

Healthy whitefly above and to the left.

p7m

Parasitized whitefly.

p8m

Parasitized whitefly.

p9m

Parasitized whiteflies. The black colored individual contains the pupal stage of Encarsia sophia the lighter colored stage is probably an immuture E. sophia.

p10m

Round circular hole indicates that a parasitoid adult has emerged. The other whitefly puparia have a been ripped open by a adult whitefly as it emerged.