Ana's notes: It is important to differentiate leafmining flies and leafmining caterpillars, since the management of the two groups of pests is different. The leafminers attacking coffee, cotton, groundnut, soybean and citrus are caterpillars, not leafmining flies. Some work was done on neem for control of leafminers on tomatoes some years back, but it was not published. I am looking for it; it should be added when available.
Information on synthetic pesticide use
Leafminers are difficult to control with chemicals due to their feeding habit and to their enormous capacity for developing resistance to insecticides. In addition, the use of chemicals to control leafminers disrupts natural biological control.
Notes for Review
mh 22.7.09 maybe we should include the valuable info on synhtetic pesticides somewhere in the text. its good to know this kind of information, when it is the case.. 'Leafminers are difficult to control with chemicals due to their feeding habit and to their enormous capacity for developing resistance to insecticides. In addition, the use of chemicals to control leafminers disrupts natural biological control. ' Pls compare pestmodules content.
Liriomyza spp.