"Tomato leaf gallery moth"

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Tomato leaf gallery moth (Tuta absoluta), Harmful type of insect from Gelechiidae family.

Loss
Leaves eggs to the leaf of tomatoes. It causes the leaf to dry by opening the vests galleries. Not only limited to the leaf, on this harmful fruit surface, you can then enter it in it. In addition to this, it can also rot all the body by entering where tomatoes are combined with the body. It can be spread to large areas in a short time with speed.

Apart from tomato, as culture plants, eggplant and Solanum also damage on muricatum. Also wild Datura stramonium is also seen in Lycium chilense and Solanum nigrum plants.

Challenge
Synthetic sex feromon water traps are active in the fight without excess.

Organic struggle with Nabis pseudoferus with natural enemy.

Spread
In Mediterranean countries, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Greece and Cyprus.

The first time seen in Turkey and the insect from imported plants was encountered in İzmir, Muğla and Çanakkale. Harmful, "red alarm" group.

Source
Red hands in tomato m

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