{"id":28413,"date":"2025-01-23T22:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28413"},"modified":"2025-01-23T22:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T03:45:52","slug":"freeze-effect-cold-temperatures-helping-decrease-whitefly-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/01\/freeze-effect-cold-temperatures-helping-decrease-whitefly-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze Effect: Cold Temperatures Helping Decrease Whitefly Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the benefits of the cold conditions this year has been the impact on insect pests and diseases. A cold winter can kill off both the insects and the plants that harbor them, providing a benefit to producers in next year&#8217;s farm management. You can read more about impacts of the frigid weather on crops <a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropgrower.com\/georgia-whiteflies-january-vegetables\/?_fl_id=7b506d2e-d525-498c-a238-a46f39ab6a57&amp;em=cGtub3hAdWdhLmVkdQ--&amp;utm_campaign=Specialty+Crop+Grower+This+Week+1-21-2025\">here<\/a> at the <em>Specialty Crop Grower<\/em>.<\/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>One of the benefits of the cold conditions this year has been the impact on insect pests and diseases. A cold winter can kill off both the insects and the plants that harbor them, providing a benefit to producers in next year&#8217;s farm management. You can read more about impacts of the frigid weather on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413","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=28413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28414,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions\/28414"}],"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=28413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}