caa a22 4500 397572034 CHVBK 20180308164844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/ee/25.4.810 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/ee/25.4.810 Development and Reproduction of Bemisia argentifolii (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) on Five Host Plants [Elektronische Daten] [James H. Tsai, Kaihong Wang] Effects of 5 commercially grown vegetables on the development, survivorship, and reproduction of the whitefly Bemisia argentifolii Bellows & Perring were studied in the laboratory. The percentages of whitefly immatures that survived on eggplant, Solanum melongena L.; tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Miller; sweet potato, Ipomoea batatus (L.) Lam; cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.; and garden bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. at 25 ± 1°C were 88.7, 60.2, 67.5, 46.4, and 45.8%, respectively. The body lengths from 2nd to 4th instars among populations on these 5 host plants were not significantly different. Female nymphs were significantly larger than males. Developmental time from egg to adult ranged from 17.3 d on eggplant to 20.9 d on garden bean. The average number of eggs laid per female were 223.7, 167.5, 77.5, 66.0, and 83.5 on the above respective hosts, and female adults lived an average of 24.0, 20.5, 16.6, 9.8, and 13.4 d on these same hosts. The intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm) for B. argentifolii on eggplant was highest. Jackknife estimates of rm varied from 0.192 on eggplant to 0.120 on garden bean. The mean generation time of the population on these hosts ranged from 23.2 to 27.2 d at 25°C. Based on life-table analyses of whitefly populations, we concluded that eggplant was the most suitable host for B. argentifolii and garden bean the least suitable. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Population Ecology nationallicence Bemisia tabaci biotype B nationallicence whitefly nationallicence host suitability nationallicence life history nationallicence Tsai James H. Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 aut Wang Kaihong Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 aut Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/4(1996-08-01), 810-816 0046-225X 25:4<810 1996 25 ee https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.4.810 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.4.810 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tsai James H. Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Kaihong Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/4(1996-08-01), 810-816 0046-225X 25:4<810 1996 25 ee Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford