Aphids on tomato plants are the bane of many a gardener’s existence. While these tiny bugs may look fairly innocuous, tomato ...

Tiny white bugs on plants in your home or outdoors can ... For example, potato aphids feed on potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and other members of the Solanaceae family.

Leafminers are the larval state of various insects which burrow into the leaves of plants, including tomatoes, to feed on ...

Stink bugs have straw-like mouth parts they use to pierce tomatoes’ skin to slurp up the juices. Their feeding causes yellow spots on the surface and hard white spots inside. The end result is a ...

A white, corky tissue forms beneath the chlorotic blemishes. Stink bugs also cause catfacing, a distortion that happens after the insects insert their strawlike mouth parts into the tomato to drink.

Are they harmful if eaten or left on tomatoes that are canned?” Thanks for your question Doris. I suspect the white spots on the inside of the fruit are caused by insect feeding — specifically brown ...

It is this enzyme that causes the abnormal white spots to develop. Stink bugs usually leave behind a tell-tale puncture wound on the surface of the tomato skin. The only way to prevent this injury ...

My tomatoes have little white tough spots under the skin ... which provides nectar and pollen for monarchs and an array of visiting insects, grows about 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide.

And be glad you don’t have white flies instead. Those pests, which do fly as opposed to hop, can be serious garden trouble. Tomatoes can’t fruit when temps are torrid Jesse in Centerville ...

Q: Yesterday (Aug. 27) we found a pure white caterpillar on one of our plants ... OSU Extension entomologist When should I stop watering my tomatoes?OSU Extension Service Q: I read somewhere ...