Pest on crop
Tarnished Plant Bug on tomato
Lygus lineolaris
Mottled brown sucking bug that probes flower buds and developing fruit, causing 'cat-facing' deformities on tomato, peach, and strawberry. Wide host range and rapid generations.
- Pest
- Tarnished Plant Bug
- Scientific name
- Lygus lineolaris
- Crop
- Tomato
- Total hosts
- 12
Tarnished Plant Bug on tomato
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Signs on tomato
- ▸ Distorted, dimpled, or 'cat-faced' fruit
- ▸ Aborted flower buds
- ▸ Small dark sunken spots on leaves and stems
- ▸ Mottled adults and small green nymphs on flower clusters
IPM controls
- ✓ Sweep-net monitoring for population thresholds
- ✓ Mow weedy borders before they bloom (Lygus migrates from flowering weeds onto crops)
- ✓ Trap crops with alfalfa strips along field edges (mow trap crop just before crop blooms)
- ✓ Targeted insecticide at high-pressure populations
- ✓ Tolerate light damage: cosmetic only on most crops
Other crops affected by tarnished plant bug
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