Re: links to pest sites for tomato

Nan - I know exactly what you're talking about.  They're little horrors.  If you can bring yourself to it, they do respond to being wiped off and drowned in soapy water.  However, my tomatoes never seemed to recover - could be that the little monsters always hit when the August heat has stopped the tomatoes, and they never get back on their feet after the feast.

 

Karrie - None of the pictures look like the beast, although Stictocephala bisonia seems to be the adult form, if Cathy's right that they're the larvae. Couldn't find any pictures of Stictocephala bisonia larva through Google - odd, since, in a sci-fi kind of way, they're very photogenic. 

 


 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Reidfamily <pkssreid@comcast.net>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:12:33 PM
Subject: links to pest sites for tomato

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.tomatoes.html
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/GARDEN/VEGES/tomato.html

Above are two links to the UC IPM web pages for tomato pests both commercial
and home garden.  I am curious what the pest mentioned on Iochroma might be,
as I can't picture what they are talking about.  Perhaps they could scan
these photos and see if their fiend is listed.

Karrie Reid
Folsom Foothill Gardener
Zone 9

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