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Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Test Your Knowledge - Tomatoes

Tomato plant with feeding damage on fruit and frass on leaves

How are you at identifying tomato insect pests by their damage?  Was this damage inflicted by...?

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Variegated cutworm caused this damage to the fruit and foliage.

Colorado potato beetle sometimes feed on tomato fruit, but mostly at the surface.

The frass on the leaf is a good clue to the culprit!

Variegated cutworm feeding on a tomato Colorado potato beetle larvae feeding on tomato fruit

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