What tomato pests threaten the crop?

It is interesting that although tomato leaves have pronounced insecticidal properties, which is why they are used to prepare decoctions and infusions used against leaf-eating pests (caterpillars and onion moths and cabbage cutworms, codling moths, gooseberry sawflies), there are many pests that can ruin the harvest tomato. Various tomato pests affects both the leaves of the plant and its stems and roots.

What are tomato pests?
Whitefly. These insect pests are located on the undersurface of tomato leaves and absorb nutrients, causing damage similar to that caused by aphids. Whiteflies can affect the ripening of fruits and also cause the fruit to change color to white.

melon aphid. A colony of aphids settles on shoots, on the undersides of leaves, and flowers. The pest sucks out all the juices from shoots, leaves, flowers, fruit ovaries, causing them to yellow, dry out and die.

Medvedka. Adult insects and their larvae. By digging tunnels near the soil surface, the mole cricket gnaws the roots and stems of plants, which quickly leads to the death of the plant.

Colorado beetle. This well-known pest eats leaf blades partially or completely.

Sprout fly. The whitish larvae of the sprout fly eat germinating seeds and barely hatched tomato seedlings.

Root-knot nematode. Pests cause pathogenic tissue growth in young roots in the form of nodules-galls, which subsequently collapse and rot. With a significant amount of damage, the plant dies very quickly.

Naked slugs. These tomato pests bore holes in leaves and chew cavities in ripe fruit. Places that have been damaged by slugs become covered with a whitish, silvery, shiny liquid.