Keep your tomatoes thriving by learning to identify and manage common pests. Keep your tomatoes thriving by learning to identify and manage pests like phids, hornworm caterpillars and brown marmorated ...

Home-grown tomatoes are a source of pride, a thing of beauty and beyond-description delicious. Insects love juicy tomatoes as much as humans do, and they can wreak havoc on our gardens. Tomatoes are ...

For effective control of the pests, it’s important to use integrated pest management (IPM), which includes preventive measures, monitoring, biological and chemical control. Tomato crops are very ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) -It is about this time of year that I get several questions regarding diseases in vegetable gardens. The tomatoes are rotting. The bean leaves are wilting. Something ...

Question for Dan Gill: Something is eating holes in my tomatoes. The holes are round and about one-half inch across. I'm also seeing holes in the leaves of my squash and tomatoes. What do you think is ...

A couple of weeks ago, James Clemmons sent me the following in an email: “I was hoping you would be able to recommend a comprehensive resource for vegetable plant disease and insect damage issues. In ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 101, No. 4 (December 2018), pp. 573-579 (7 pages) The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), a devastating pest of tomato, invaded Tanzania ...

Five types of trichomes have been described in cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.): type-I is 2–3 mm long with a multicellular base and a glandular small cell in the tip; type-III is ...