The cotton whitefly has become a key pest, damaging many kinds of crops. The cotton whitefly has developed resistance to a variety of pesticides. Pesticide resistance would most likely develop in insects that:

The correct answer is - reproduce rapidly.

Explanation:

In the insects such as cotton whitefly can develop a resistance to a variety of pesticides by surviving a small population from each pesticide or insecticide treatment.

Such populations reproduce rapidly to transfer the gene that is mutated or the change it adapted for survival to next generations and pass the resistance to the insecticide. If the use of an insecticide is repeatedly and in large quantity, there are chances to develop resistance to a larger population.

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