Tomato leaf miner(Tuta absoluta, Gelichiidae,Lepidioptera )

• The most destructive pest of tomato.

Damaging stage: larva

Damaging symptoms: mining of leaves, puncture marks, abnormal shape, existing hole, frass.

Identification

• Egg: creamy white to yellow, single  underside of
• Larva:ice cream color with dark stripes on
• Pupa: soil, leaves, sometimes in the stem, brown.
• Adult: silverish gray scales, black spot on anterior wings.

Management

• Predator: mired
• Egg parasitoid : trichogramma chilonis
• Larval parasitoid : Apenteles
• Bacteria : Bt var kurstaki
• Nematode : steinernema carpocapsae, steinernema feltidae, Heterohabditis
• Pheromone trap: Tuta lure water trap( container water and lure sesecurelybove the water with wire attached), sticky trap( pheromone incorporated into the sticky glue).
• Spinosin , indoxacarb, abamectin, emamectin benzoate and