—”Tomato yellow leaf curl virus does the same thing to tomato plants ...”
If anyone even looks like they might be contaminating my tomato plants-—
we are armed and ready.
We had a humongous mulberry tree and most of the critters in DuPage County would visit for a treat, no coyotes but often see them nearby.
Once there were photos of an unknown female person walking through the back of our property?????
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus is injected into tomato plants when infected white flies dine on the plants ... this can happen at the nursery when the seedlings are raised, or at retail shops that leave the plants in the open air or after you bring the plants home ...
you won’t know the plants are infected until they start to fruit and then you notice the fruit is stunted and the plants start to wither ... the only prevention option is to guard the plants throughout their life cycle, either with continuous use of pesticides or sealed greenbouses to keep out white flies ...