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Pest Affecting Tomoto Production – Free Online Agri Studymaterial

TOMATO Fruit borer Helicoverpa armigera (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) It is a major pest of tomato. Main hosts are gram, cotton, citrus, indigo, cowpea, groundnut, linseed, sunflower, bhendi, chilli, millets, tobacco, etc.  Young larvae feed on tender foliage and full-grown caterpillars attack fruits.  They make circular boreholes and thrust their head inside fruit and eat inner contents.  […]