Risk Assessment for Tomato Fruitworm in Processing Tomato Crop-Egg Location and Sequential Sampling.

is one of the key pests affecting processing tomatoes and many other crops. A three-year study was conducted to describe the oviposition preferences of this species on determinate tomato plants (mainly the stratum, leaf, leaflet, and leaf side) and the spatial pattern of the eggs in the field, to form a sequential sampling plan. Eggs were found mainly in the exposed canopy, on (upper stratum) and (upper-middle stratum) and significantly fewer eggs on (middle-lower stratum) below flower clusters.