The first growth stage is the crawler, susceptible to insecticides. Check for scale along leaf veins and on stems. Infested plants exhibit poor, stunted growth and often you will see the small, raised, brown shells of the scale insects. Whiteflies White flies are tiny, snow-white insects. Adult females can lay up to 100 crescent-shaped eggs per month on the undersides of leaves.
Whiteflies breed continuously in interior environments, rapidly creating large populations.
Infested plants become weak, deformed and pale, and eventually die. Whiteflies secrete honeydew. They are commonly found in highly organic soils or unsterilized soil and rarely cause damage to plants. Any damage that does occur will be in the form of chewing injury to feeder roots. Larger roots, seedling and succulent stems.