FIMBY: Battling early-season tomato pests
Awareness and perseverance will keep plants, fruit in good shape
Tagged: leaf-footed bugs
Bad bugs can fool you; they keep changing
This is not a good bug to find in your vegetable garden: It’s a Leptoglossus zonatus , a leaffooted bug. (Photo: Debbie Arrington) Just when you think you can tell a good bug from...
Got tomatoes? Look out for these invaders
These leaf-footed bugs are hanging out in tomatillos, but they like all kinds of ripening summer produce. (Photo: Debbie Arrington) Leaf-footed bugs love ripening fruit Have you seen this bug? It can literally suck...
Leaf-footed bugs make early appearance
Reader Irma Hernandez-Larin wanted to know what was eating her roses. Leaf-footed bugs! (Photo courtesy Irma Hernandez-Larin) Over-wintering adults are laying eggs and making trouble Be on the lookout: Leaf-footed bugs are already on...
These bugs like it hot
Leaf-footed bug attacks a tomatillo in Midtown. (Photo: Debbie Arrington) Leaf-footed bugs on rosebud. Besides spider mites, one other pest apparently loves recent hot and smoky weather: Leaf-footed bugs. (They’re pretty crazy about tomatoes,...