Tomato Leaf Miner

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Date Compiled: 2024
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Prevention

Solution
Use suitable nets to screen all the openings of the greenhouses in order to prevent the entry of adults.
Expose traps triggered with sex pheromone to monitor the flight of males and place electrofluorescent traps for mass trapping of adults.

Monitoring

Solution
Threshold: presence of the pest.
It is advisable to do chemical treatments when the first galleries appear on the leaves every sa must be repeated twice at an interval of 7-10 days

Control

Solution Product Category Production stage (if possible with reference to BBCH scale) Max nb. of a. i. application/year Application Details and Notes (commercial product example) Chemical Group IRAC Code
Secure the action of natural predators, like Macrolophus caliginosus and Nesidiocoris tenuisand, and some Hymenoptera predators of eggs (Tricogramma spp.)
Use pheromone traps for Monitoring practices the presence of the insect
Mating disruption
Bacillus thuringiensis kustaki strain SA-11
Biological insecticide
Azadirachtin
Biological insecticide
Treat preventively or at the first appearance of parasites
5
(OIKOS®) Dosage: 1-1,5 L/ha
Azadirachtin
UN
Emamectin benzoate
Biological insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 3 days before harvest
3
(AFFIRM®) Dosage: 1,5 kg/ha
Avermectins
6
Spinosad
Biological insecticide
Treat preventively or at the first appearance of parasites
3
(LASER) Dosage: 160-300 ml/ha
Spinosine
5

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Solution Product Category Production stage (if possible with reference to BBCH scale) Max nb. of a. i. application/year Application Details and Notes (commercial product example) Chemical Group IRAC Code
Metaflumizone
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 3 days before harvest
2
(ALVERDE) Disage: 1 L/ha
Semicarbazones
22B
Chlorantraniliprole
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 7 days before harvest
2 (Between Clorantraniliprole and Cyantraniliprole)
(AMPLIGO®) Dosage: 0,2 L/ha
Diamides
28
Etofenprox
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 7 days before harvest
1 (Among all pyrethroids)
(TREBON® UP) Dosage: 0,5 L/ha
Pyrethroids and pyrethrins
3A
Tebufenozide
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 3 days before harvest
2 (Between Tebuzenozide and Methoxyfenozide)
(MIMIC®) Dosage: 750 ml/ha
Diacylhydrazines
18
Cyantraniliprole
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 14 days before harvest
2 (Between Clorantraniliprole and Cyantraniliprole)
(MINECTO ALPHA TM) Dosage: 1l/ha
Diamides
28
Acibenzolar-S-methyl
Synthetic insecticide
Benzothiadiazoles
Abamectin
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 7 days before harvest
3
(VERTIMEC®EC) Dosage: 0,3-1,2 L/ha
Avermectins
6
Spinetoram
Synthetic insecticide
Treat at the first appearance of parasites. Suspend treatments 3 days before harvest
3 (Limit between spinosines)
(EXALT™ 25 SC) Dosage: 2,4 L/ha
Spinosine
5
The information made available here has been obtained from or is based upon sources believed by CABI to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Anyone acting or relying on such information does so entirely at their own risk. The efficacy of the IPM methods included above will depend on local conditions and might not always be suitable everywhere within the specified country.