{"id":12817,"date":"2017-10-18T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:48:15","slug":"will-a-la-nina-winter-cause-more-problems-with-whiteflies-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/will-a-la-nina-winter-cause-more-problems-with-whiteflies-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a La Ni\u00f1a winter cause more problems with whiteflies next year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two winters in the Southeast have been fairly mild, and extension specialists in Georgia have linked this to an onslaught of whiteflies during the last two growing seasons.\u00a0 If winter is mild, more whiteflies are able to survive the winter and add to crop woes in the next growing season. With a La Ni\u00f1a expected to bring milder than normal conditions in the next winter, that could mean a continuation of the pattern that allows whiteflies to live and attack next year&#8217;s crop.\u00a0 Farmers will have to be very vigilant about watching for whitefly infestations and staying on top of treatments for them as the next growing season begins.\u00a0 You can read more at <em>Vegetable and Specialty Crop News<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/vegetable-growers-face-whitefly-challenges\/\">https:\/\/vscnews.com\/vegetable-growers-face-whitefly-challenges\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/uf-q-biotype-whitefly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11138\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/uf-q-biotype-whitefly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/uf-q-biotype-whitefly.jpg 250w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/uf-q-biotype-whitefly-151x138.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two winters in the Southeast have been fairly mild, and extension specialists in Georgia have linked this to an onslaught of whiteflies during the last two growing seasons.\u00a0 If winter is mild, more whiteflies are able to survive the winter and add to crop woes in the next growing season. With a La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":11138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12818,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions\/12818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}