General
General
The potato tuber moth is a major pest of potatoes, and can also attack other crops of the Solanaceae family. As with all lepidopteran pests, the larval stages (caterpillars) are those that carry out the damage, They mine in leaves and stems, and in case of potatoes also in the tubers where they can further survive and multiply during storage. This is a big problem when the tubers are used as seeds, because the pest moves to re-infest or infest a field where there was no presence of the moth.