A database of eight common tomato pest images

The database is based on eight common tomato pests, including (1) Tetranychus urticae, (2) Bemisia argentifolii, (3) Zeugodacus cucurbitae, (4) Thrips palmi, (5) Myzus persicae, (6) Spodoptera litura, (7) Spodoptera exigua, and (8) Helicoverpa armigera. The original images were collected from IPMImages database (https://www.ipmimages.org/index.cfm), National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR) (https://www.nbair.res.in /Databases/insectpests/index.php) and Google search. The image database contains 609 original images in 8 categories, and is amplified using image enhancement technology to have a total of 4263 images after enhancement. Image enhancement technologies include 90 degree rotation, 180 degree rotation, 270 degree rotation, horizontal flip, vertical flip and crop. Finally, the image size is unified in 299*299 and the image format is in .JPG file.