Growers should monitor populations with pheromone traps. Look for adults during the early morning hours in the top third of the plant, as weevils retreat into the canopy later in the day. Be sure to check fallen fruit for weevils, frass, or damage. Vydate is probably still the best product for control. It is only effective on adults so that established infestations must be sprayed regularly to kill adults as they emerge.
Sanitation is important as weevils move from old fields to infest new plantings.
Destroy old fields after harvest. Be sure to spray fields before destruction and thoroughly incorporate crop residues. Late blight has now been positively identified on tomato in few locations around Immokalee. Lab analysis has positively identified one sample as US 8 a potato strain and another US 17 a tomato strain, which was very active in this area several years ago. This expires May 20, 1999.