“…However, this effect often disappears later in the growing season; crop cover nets are labour intensive, may facilitate aphid pests and hinder colonization by natural enemies (Ludwig & Meyhöfer, 2016). Arthropodan natural enemies of A. proletella comprise hymenopteran parasitoids, syrphid larvae, spiders, coccinelids, predatory bugs, lacewing larvae, predatory flies and predatory gall midges (Butler, 1936;Evans, 2007b;Gumovsky, 2005;Laurenz et al, 2019;Mound & Halsey, 1978;Noyes, 2020;Pütz et al, 2000;Springate, 2017;Springate & Arnold, 2011;Stein, 1958;van Rijn et al, 2008). The only specialists on whiteflies are the parasitoid species and the coccinelid Clitostethus arcuatus Rossi (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).…”