Biocontrols For Your Tomato Crop
The most common pests that affect greenhouse tomatoes are whitefly, caterpillars/loopers and spider mites. Occasional pests are tomato russet mites, aphids, potato psyllids, and more recently, thrips. Encarsia formosa, a small wasp used for whitefly control, has been used since the 1960’s, and is therefore one of the first commercially available biocontrol agents for the greenhouse industry.
Pest Name
Scientific Name
Suitable Products
Whitefly, Sweet Potato or Greenhouse
Trialeurodes vaporariorum and or Bemisia tabaci
Two-spotted Spider Mite and Carmine Mite
Tetranychus urticae and Tetranychus cinnabarinus
Fungus gnats & Shore flies in tomato crops grown in organic or soil media
Bradysia spp & Scatella spp.
