Crops
Other pests
Many other pests are likely to consume the tissues of various tomato organs around the world. The main pests, as well as the damage they cause on this plant, are described in the following table.
Some other pests which can devour, perforate, undermine the seedlings,
the vegetation and fruits of the tomato
| Pests | Symptoms |
| Blapstin us spp. blapstines ( darkling beetles ) |
Consumes the stem of young plants at ground level |
| Melolontha melolontha hanneton commun ( cockchafer ) Agriotes spp. wireworms, wireworms, yellow worms (Figures 2 and 3) ( wireworms, click beetle larvas ) |
In particular devour the roots and stems of seedlings (Figure 1) |
| Scutigerella immaculata scutigerelle ( garden symphylan ) |
Consumes seedlings before and after emergence |
| Agroti s spp. vers gris (figure 4) ( wireworms ) |
Consume the stem of young plants at ground level, more rarely the fruits and leaves in contact with it |
| Autographa californica noctuelle de la luzerne ( alfalfa looper ) |
Consumes the foliage, sometimes the fruits |
| Manduca sexta tobacco hornworm ( tobacco hornworm ) Manduca quinquemanculata tomato sphinx, horned caterpillar ( tomato hornworm ) |
Consume leaves, young stems and green fruits |
| Delia platura seedling fly ( deedcorn maggot ) |
Consumes seeds and seedlings before emergence |
| Agrotis spp. cutworms, soil-dwelling moths ( cutworms ) |
Consume the stem of young plants at ground level, more rarely the fruits and leaves in contact with it |
| Epithrix spp. altises ( flea beetles ) |
Consume the stem and leaflets of young plants, and the leaflets of adult plants |
| Keiferia lycopersicella tomato mineuse ( tomato pinworm ) |
Perforates green and ripe fruits Sometimes produces mines on the leaves |
| Helicoverpa zea tomato fruit moth ( tomato fruitworm ) Heliothis virescens tobacco bud moth ( tobacco budworm ) Spodoptera praefica ( wester yellostriped armyworm ) |
Consume the fruit, causing deep, moist cavities |
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