Insects? Disease?

tam91 · June 12, 2012

This doesn't seem to be on my tomato plants (yet anyway) - but here are some pictures of a pepper plant (multiple are like this) and a tomatillo plant. They are not adjacent to each other in the garden.

The tomatillo anyway, they holes are right through.

Does it look like insect damage?

RayR · June 12, 2012

Yep, looks like insect damage. Did you look on the bottom of the leaves for any critters that might still be there?

sfmathews · June 12, 2012

Looks like flea beatle damage. Teensy, tiny holes are the damage they leave behind. They really like my eggplant!

lakelady · June 12, 2012

yep, flea beetles are all over and love eggplant the best. dust the plants with DE and they'll die after eating it.

tam91 · June 12, 2012

Interesting, since there is an eggplant between the peppers and the tomatillo, and not a mark on it. I think I have some DE around here, or I definitely have some Sevin.

lakelady · June 13, 2012

Last year they got my eggplants so bad I pulled them up and potted them and then they FINALLY set flowers and fruits in late August. This year I found a bunch of dead buggers on the bottoms of leaves; apparently, they ate the DE, so I'm pretty confident it works well

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lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	yep, flea beetles are all over and love eggplant the best. dust the plants with DE and they'll die after eating it. __________________ Antoniette

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tam91 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Crystal Lake IL Posts: 2,484	Interesting, since there is an eggplant between the peppers and the tomatillo, and not a mark on it. I think I have some DE around here, or I definitely have some Sevin. __________________ Tracy

June 13, 2012	#6
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	Last year they got my eggplants so bad I pulled them up and potted them and then they FINALLY set flowers and fruits in late August. This year I found a bunch of dead buggers on the bottoms of leaves; apparently, they ate the DE, so I'm pretty confident it works well __________________ Antoniette

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RayR Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Posts: 2,468	Yep, looks like insect damage. Did you look on the bottom of the leaves for any critters that might still be there?

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sfmathews Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Allen, TX Posts: 398	Looks like flea beatle damage. Teensy, tiny holes are the damage they leave behind. They really like my eggplant!