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- What shape is the damage: round holes, only veins left, white trails, or a pale stippling?
- Where are the insects or droppings: under the leaves, on new shoots, or at the base?
- If nothing is visible by day, check at night or early morning for cutworms and slugs.
Most likely causes
From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.
Aphids
Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.
How to identify and treat: AphidsSpider Mites
Fine white stippling spreads across the upper leaf surface, and the leaf eventually whitens and dies back. In heavy infestations fine webbing appears on leaf undersides and shoot tips.
How to identify and treat: Spider MitesThrips
Silvery white to brown scarring spreads over leaf and fruit surfaces. Flowers discolor and drop, and fruit is left with keloid-like scar tissue.
How to identify and treat: ThripsOther possible causes
- Twenty-eight-spotted Ladybird — The leaf surface is shaved thin, leaving a fine net-like pattern of feeding scars. Heavy f…
- Whiteflies — Shake the plant and a cloud of tiny white insects flies up. Nymphs stay fixed on leaf unde…
- Tobacco Cutworm — Many larvae gather on the leaf underside and graze the tissue away, leaving white skeleton…
- Root-knot Nematode — The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up a…
- Helicoverpa Bollworms — Round holes are bored into fruit and buds, the inside eaten out and packed with frass. Rot…
- Root-lesion Nematode — Elongated blackish brown necrotic lesions form on the root surface and fine roots rot away…
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what eggplant pests and bug damage is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.
Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.
- Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
- Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
- Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.
Free on iPhone. Recording, tagging and reading public records cost nothing.