The whitefly life cycle includes several distinct stages: Eggs. Female whiteflies lay 6 to 20 eggs daily on the leaves of host plants. Eggs generally hatch in 7 to 10 days. Crawlers.

In warm, humid environments, whiteflies can complete their entire lifecycle in just 16 days, and a single female whitefly lays about 400 eggs in her lifetime. Considering those statistics ...

During Question Hour, JD(S) Floor Leader C B Suresh Babu, said that a white fly could lay thousands of eggs on a single coconut tree branch, effectively destroying it.