There's a new pest being found in Western Australia
called the Tomato Potato Psyllid.
So I'm going to check my tomato plant,
looking for anything unusual.
Straight away I can see some,
about three millimetre black and banded things here
that I don't know, so I want to be sampling
for them and taking a photo of them with
MyPestGuide app by the Department of
Agriculture and Food. I'm looking further
down where the leaves don't look so fresh,
and I'm turning the underside of the
leaf because they'll be hiding on the underside generally and
straight away I can see some scale-like insects which
might be the juvenile forms.
So I'll be taking pictures with the MyPestGuide app of them.
So there's one photograph of the underside of the leaf.
There's some adult forms here, I'll just focus in on them.
Captured an image there.
"camera clicks"
I'll take a third image, and send it off
of the whole plant.
"camera clicks"
So there's the third image.
I'm marking that I'm sending a sample,
I found it on tomato plants, my address
although it takes GPS readings of the photograph
so that's not so important, but
I'll also say that I'm going to share it, "yes", and send.
If I didn't have the MyPestGuide Reporter app, I could take
some clear images and send them via email
to info@agric.wa.gov.au
or free call the Department of Agriculture and Food's
Pest and Diseases Information Service
on 1800 084 881
