beet leafhopper

…Europe, and Asia by the beet leafhopper (Circulifer tenullus) and in South America by Agalliana ensigera, which overwinter on wild plant hosts and in the spring migrate to sugar beet fields, their preferred hosts. The disease may be avoided by planting a thick stand as early as possible or when…

The beet leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus) is the carrier of a viral disease known as “curly top” that curls sugar beet leaves and stunts plant growth. The adults are pale green or yellow and are about 3 mm (0.1 inch) long. There are three or more generations…

The sugarbeet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus, winters as an adult in desert areas and produces an early spring generation on desert plants. As desert plants become unfavourable for feeding, the leafhoppers migrate to available cultivated plants where from one to four summer generations are produced. When the…

…by the desert species of sugar-beet leafhopper depends on the abundance of rainfall during one season. Host plants of a given species may be closely related, as legumes on which eggs are deposited and adults live; or the life cycle may be divided between alternate unrelated host plants. The fact…