Black Cutworm - Tomato

Tomato Tomato

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Stem eating of tomatoes

Eating stem of tomatoes in compost

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Patrick Hilger May be wild animal damaged it.

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Hi Patrick Hilger. Also compare symptoms with Foot and Collar Rot and Stem Rot . Click on green links for checking symptoms and taking control measures from Plantix library.

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Nop not a disease its an insect ;)

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Hi Patrick Hilger, Do you suspect Black Cutworm or Mole Cricket? Thank you Suresh Gollar for the great efforts 😊

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No no cutworms present;)

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Probably insects. Pesticides must be used to eradicate them

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Patrick Hilger Check for presence of Slugs and Snails or Black Cutworm in the evening hours

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Its not easy to spot the caterpillads, especially because they burrow deep in the soil. Mostly they emerge at night. This might be a cut worm

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Patrick Hilger fear

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Use savin

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Patrick Hilger The damage symptoms rather has chance of squirrel attack. So, I predicted it to be associated with wild animal damage.

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