Tomato Fruit Borer: Symptoms, Impact and Control
Tomato fruit borer is a major pest, which damages tomato crops by boring into fruits, causing significant yield loss and quality reduction.
The infested tomatoes show holes, excreta, and internal feeding damage. Fruits get rottened, leads to reduction of yield and quality.
Symptoms
Tomato fruit borer can cause yield losses ranging from 20% to 60%, significantly impacting the profitability of tomato farming.
Yield Loss %
The pest causes the most damage during the fruiting stage, where larvae bore into developing fruits, making them unmarketable.
Stage of Damage
1.Cultural Practices
Rotate the crops to disrupt the life cycle of the tomato fruit borer and reduce pest buildup in the soil.
Management
2.Biological Practices
Trichogramma wasps lay their eggs in tomato fruit borer eggs, killing the pests before they can damage the tomatoes.
3.Prevention Practices
Use pheromone traps with Helilure at 4-5/acre to monitor, trap the adult moths and reducing their population.
4.Chemical Practices
Spray Coragen 60ml/acre during morning or evening hours for effective control of larvae
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