The bandedwinged whitefly, Trialeurodes abutilonea (Haldeman) is found in most of the US cotton belt but is only rarely at pest populations. During the past two seasons limited outbreaks have occurred in northern Texas. Microscopic examination of adult insects collected near Vernon, TX showed that they had a series of dark spots across their wings rather than the dark bands typically found on the wings of this species. Examination of nymphs by Dr. Ray Gill of Sacramento, CA confirmed that these spotted insects were, in fact, bandedwinged whiteflies. HPLC analysis established that honeydew collected from an outbreak of these insects in cotton near Vernon and Lubbock, TX and that collected from bandedwinged whiteflies near Maricopa, AZ in 1994 all contained a similar sugar pattern. The predominant sugars in bandedwinged whitefly honeydew are the monosaccharides glucose and fructose, in contrast to honeydew from the sweetpotato whitefly and cotton aphid, which are more complex and dominated by oligosaccharides. Cotton infested with bandedwinged honeydew was found to be approximately as sticky as that with an equivalent contamination of cotton aphid honeydew.