An Artificial Neural Network-Based Pest Identification and Control in Smart Agriculture Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 6

Major pests of tomatoes.

Pest	Damage done
Fruit borer	The larvae scrape tomato leaves until the early or late stages of the second instar. The fruit is rendered unmarketable since the larvae have eaten its flesh.
Thrips	To get the tomato spotted wilt virus to feed on tomatoes, thrips pierce the plant’s outer layer with their mouthparts and suck the plant’s cells. This results in white or brown blotches on the leaves, indicating the plant’s cell death location.
Corn earworm	Take care during feeding, as an injury to half of an animal’s ear might occur before larval growth is finished.
Whitefly	Feed on leaves and cause yellowing and curling and glossy or blackened leaves by creating honeydew on them.
Aphids	The plant’s young leaves are curled and sucked, weakening them till it eventually dies.
Leafhopper	Plants get stunted, and their leaves become covered in yellow triangles (“hopper burn”).
Tomato psyllid	To remove the surplus water and sugar, psyllids inject stylets into the plant and suck the sap out of the plant.
Tomato russet mite	Remove the contents of the cells in the leaves, stems, and fruit that you have harvested. Leaves become golden in hue and eventually perish.