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Can you suggest something I can do to keep stink bugs from ruining my tomatoes. They leave white blotches on my tomatoes.
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Asked July 27, 2024, 1:03 PM EDT
Can you suggest something I can do to keep stink bugs from ruining my tomatoes. They leave white blotches on my tomatoes.
Baltimore County Maryland
Expert Response
That damage on tomatoes is referred to as 'cloudy spot' but it can disfigure some other vegetables as well.
Here is our page Stinkbugs on Vegetables:
https://extension.umd.edu/resource/stink-bugs-vegetables/
We have a native green stinkbug that isn't serious but the brown marmorated stinkbug can cause more problems.
The page will help you to manage them in multiple ways, including learning what their egg masses look like and destroying them, cleaning up well at the end of the season, floating row covers early in the season, and a spray cover of kaolin clay.
Christine
Here is our page Stinkbugs on Vegetables:
https://extension.umd.edu/resource/stink-bugs-vegetables/
We have a native green stinkbug that isn't serious but the brown marmorated stinkbug can cause more problems.
The page will help you to manage them in multiple ways, including learning what their egg masses look like and destroying them, cleaning up well at the end of the season, floating row covers early in the season, and a spray cover of kaolin clay.
Christine
