The attached pictures include example symptoms of tomato spotted wilt. This disease is vectored by thrips and has a range of symptoms including chlorotic leaves, mottling, ringspot lesions, stunting, corky pods, and plant death. Once infections become symptomatic, we do not have management options available, although it can be helpful to make notes for use in following years.

Also shown are early leaf spot lesions. These are from untreated Emery peanut planted in a field that has not been rotated for a couple decades. Early leaf spot is comparatively less common in SC compared to late leaf spot, the latter of which is our predominant leaf spot disease. Early leaf spot can tend to start to develop earlier in the season compared to late leaf spot but also tends to have a slower rate of overall progression. Many of our fungicides are effective against both ELS and LLS. ELS lesions produce spores on the topside of their lesions, whereas LLS lesions have spore production on the bottom side of lesions.