Seasonal incidence of tomato pin worm Tuta absoluta (meyrick) Manjula K N, Kotikal Y K*, Venkateshalu Department of Entomology, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot *Email: ykkotikal@rediffmail.com (corresponding author)
Online published on 21 July, 2020. Abstract Observations on the seasonal incidence of the tomato pin worm Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) revealed that the occurrence was less during early stage of the crop, but later increased. The effect of weather factors evaluated during 2017–18 to 2018–19 revealed a positive correlation with the maximum temperature, and a negative one with relative humidity and rainfall. Top Keywords Tomato, Tuta absoluta, foliage, fruit damage, population dynamics, temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, correlation coefficients. Top |