Beginner Gardening: How do u treat a tomato plant affected with leaf miners?, 0 by vanita79

vanita79 wrote:
Hi weenel, thanks for the advice I have been removing a lot of foilage lately and my only fear is what to do if more leaves are affected. I have tried cutting out the portion of the part of the leaf that was affected to avoid removing too many leaves. Just a quick question why would you burn the leaf, are they so dangerous? I usually throw the feaf away. Away from my balcaney. You are right about the camouflage because I have been watching the tomato plant (affected), thats fruiting by the way, at different times of the day and still cant figure out who is laying the eggs. I also tried brushing off a lot of white dandruff like substance from under the leaf. I just hope I can find the culprit and kill it before it tries to ruin more leaves. There is this one mosquito I have seen a lot in my balcony lately. I've seen atleast 10-15 resting on walls. So many of them dead around the place. Two of them died on the bed where some strawberry seedlings are growing. I'm not sure if these people are laying eggs under my tomato leaves but thereare just too many of them in my balconey. I'm gonna try to find out how to get rid of the visible ones first. And hope I can find neem oil which I have read is quite effective in discouraging new growth of leaf miners. Hope I can sort it out. This the mosquito bug by the way just in case you know what it is.