Silverleaf whitefly (SLW) is an introduced pest to Australia, having first been discovered in the early 1990's. It was not until the 2001-02 season that a serious outbreak occurred on the Central Highlands and to a lessor extent the Dawson Valley, impacting on a variety of crops including cotton, peanuts, melons, sunflower, soybeans and nursery plants. It also diminished air quality (from clouds of insects) thereby affecting quality of life of townsfolk and destroyed numerous varieties of garden plants. The outbreak occurred partly due to the inability of local cropping industries to control the pest in a number of situations, especially cotton. To address this issue, the Central Queensland cotton industry and QDPl&F invested much time and effort to rapidly develop a management strategy for the pest.