{"id":26180,"date":"2023-08-08T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=26180"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:31:56","slug":"whitefly-populations-remain-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/08\/whitefly-populations-remain-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitefly Populations Remain Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Because of the cold outbreak late in 2022 and the relatively wet weather this year, whitefly populations across the region have remained low, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/whitefly-populations-remain-low\/\">recent article<\/a> in <em>Specialty Crop Industry<\/em> by Clint Thompson. However, it is noted that if hot and dry conditions continue to occur, the populations could increase quickly. Whiteflies are important because they can inflict damage on vegetable plants and can also transmit multiple viruses that can affect the plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/uf-q-biotype-whitefly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/uf-q-biotype-whitefly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11138\" 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><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the cold outbreak late in 2022 and the relatively wet weather this year, whitefly populations across the region have remained low, according to a recent article in Specialty Crop Industry by Clint Thompson. However, it is noted that if hot and dry conditions continue to occur, the populations could increase quickly. Whiteflies are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26181,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions\/26181"}],"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=26180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}