These are sucking insects and their feeding habit is not very destructive. They are important because they transmit the cassava mosaic and brown streak virus diseases. Control is aimed at the disease and not the insect pest. Use of clean planting materials is advocated
Iti ndi tizilombo toyamwa mbewu ndipo njira zawo zodyera ndizosawononga kwambiri. Ndizofunikira chifukwa zimafalitsa matenda a cassava mosaic komanso brown streak virus. Kuthana nazo kumafuna kuletsa kufala kwa matendawo osati tizilomboto. Kugwiritsa ntchito mbewu yopanda tizilombo kukulimbikitsidwa