TOMATO INSECT GUIDELINES

 

Crop Stage: Transplanting Through Flowering

Insect Pest

What to look for:

Control When Required

Flea beetles

Small round holes in leaves, small brown beetles that jump

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden), Esfenvalerate (Ortho Bug-B-Gon Insect Killer), Lambda-cyhalothrin (Spectracide Triazicide), Permethrin (Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower), Carbaryl (Sevin), Cyfluthrin (Bayer Advanced Lawn & Garden Multi-Insect Killer)

Aphids

Wingless aphids on the undersides of leaves and new in the new growth

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden), Esfenvalerate (Ortho Bug-B-Gon Insect Killer), Lambda-cyhalothrin (Spectracide Triazicide), Permethrin (Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower),  Malathion, Cyfluthrin (Bayer Advanced Lawn & Garden Multi-Insect Killer)  Insecticidal soap

Spider

Mites

Stipling, mottled yellow and bronze color of lower leaves

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden),, Sulfur 90%, Insecticidal soap

Colorado potato beetle

Adult beetles or larvae on young plants

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden), Esfenvalerate (Ortho Bug-B-Gon Insect Killer), Lambda-cyhalothrin (Spectracide Triazicide), Permethrin (Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower), Carbaryl (Sevin), Cyfluthrin (Bayer Advanced Lawn & Garden Multi-Insect Killer)

Crop Stage:  Fruit Set Through Harvest

Insect Pest

What to look for:

Control When Required

Tomato Fruitworm

 

Hornworm

 

 

Damage fruit and larvae; eggs on the leaves near green fruit and at outer edges of plant

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden), Esfenvalerate (Ortho Bug-B-Gon Insect Killer), Lambda-cyhalothrin (Spectracide Triazicide), Permethrin (Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower), Carbaryl (Sevin), Cyfluthrin (Bayer Advanced Lawn & Garden Multi-Insect Killer)

Aphids

See above "Aphids -- Transplanting Through Flowering."

Mites

See above “Spider Mites -  Transplanting Through Flowering.”

Stink bugs

Adult stink bugs and damage to fruit

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden), Esfenvalerate (Ortho Bug-B-Gon Insect Killer), Lambda-cyhalothrin (Spectracide Triazicide), Permethrin (Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower), Carbaryl (Sevin), Cyfluthrin (Bayer Advanced Lawn & Garden Multi-Insect Killer)

Cabbage looper

Fecal pellets on leaves or below plant; looper larvae

Bifenthrin (Ortho Houseplant & Garden), Esfenvalerate (Ortho Bug-B-Gon Insect Killer), Lambda-cyhalothrin (Spectracide Triazicide), Permethrin (Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower), Carbaryl (Sevin), Bacillus thuringiensis

 

Carefully follow the manufacturer’s instructions on the label for all pesticides.  Trade and brand names are used only for information.  The Cooperative Extension, The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences does not guarantee or warrant the standard of any product mentioned; neither does the use of a trade or brand name imply approval of any product to the exclusion of others which also may be suitable.

 

References:  Tomato Insect IPM Guidelines, Ric Bessin, Cooperative Extension, University of Kentucky 

                                www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef313.asp

                                 www.uky.edu/Ag/IMP/picturesheets/tomatoinsects.pdf 

                Georgia Pest Management Handbook, Cooperative Extension, University of Georgia

 

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