DATASET_Role of different crop and non-crop habitats on cassava whitefly colonisation on cassava fields in Malawi.xlsx

Whitefly colonisation source on cassava at the beginning of the growing season was investigated by placing clean sentinel cassava in different alternative host plant habitats in Lilongwe and Nkhatabay in Malawi in 2017. The sentinel plants were removed from the field and taken to the laboratory after four weeks for assessing whitefly colonisation. The data comprises counts of whitefly adults and nymphs and parasitised nymphs on sentinel cassava as well as on alternative host plants in the habitats.