Since 1991

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+90 242 322 89 00

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Muratpaşa / ANTALYA

OUR R&D STUDIES AGAINST TUTA ABSOLUTA

TUTA ABSOLUTA (Tomato Moth)

Egg 7days

  • Eggs are oval cylindrical. Cream, light yellow color
  • 73% in leaves
  • 21% in veins and trunk
  • 5% in sepals
  • 1% in fruits

Larva 8 days

  • There are 4 larval stages.
  • While the 1st stage larva is 0.9 mm, the 4th stage
  • The larva is 8 mm.

Pupa 10 days

  • Pupa is 6 mm long, light brown in color.
  • In the soil, in the dried leaves, the stem of the plant

located in the section.

Adult female 10-15 days,, male 6-7 days

  • Thin long, 6mm in length, wingspan

is about 10 mm.

  • Fore wings narrow, silvery gray brownish

It has characteristic large and small blackish spots.

  • It has a thread-shaped antenna.

LIFE CYCLE DURATION

14 C 76 days

20 C 24 days

27 C 24 days

  • It can give 10-12 generations per year.
  • A female can lay 120-260 eggs during her lifetime.
  • Adult butterflies are active at night and hide under the leaf during the day.
  • They usually lay their eggs under the leaves, on the petals of buds and immature green tomato fruits.
  • Eggs hatch in 4-5 days
  • They spend the winter as eggs, pupae or adults.
  • The activity of the pest stops below 7 C.