#leafminers

2025-03-07

If you live in Ontario and like leaf miners, Charley Eiseman would be grateful for pics of ones living on ornamental geraniums. He'd be extra happy if you'd collect the leaves and rear the larvae into adulthood (it's fun). Details in link. Photo of Agromyza nigrescens on dusky crane's-bill by Hannah Mews (CC BY-NC). #LeafMiners #insects #diptera #flies #entomology #inaturalist #geranium #ontario #toronto inaturalist.org/projects/33779

Fingers holding up a lobed leaf to the sky so that the insects living inside are backlight by the light.
Chuckling Duckfriesen5000@mstdn.ca
2024-09-26

Congrats to @ceiseman !! Well deserved recognition of you tireless work on leaf miners.
#leafminers #entomology #insects

Charley Eiseman - Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation
maxwell-hanrahan.org/award/cha

David Michael Selfdmself@mstdn.social
2024-07-19

This is #ragweed, most likely /#Ambrosia artemisi...(something)/, from the #sunflower family.

It is native to the Americas, invasive in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It competes with modern food crops, reducing yield, but is itself very nutritious as greens or seeds, used as both food and medicine by native peoples.

Everyone hates ragweed, but I grow it on purpose in my native plant gardens, and also as a trap plant to draw #leafminers away from my #pepper plants.

#gardening with #weeds

A group of short plants with large frond-like leaves.
2024-04-26

Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) provides for many insects from native bees to parasitic flies that followed the Europeans to North America. Unfortunately, it's a highly invasive plant that has the potential to destroy native plant communities.

#InvasivePlants #Pollinators #LeafMiners #GreatPlains

A cluster of white garlic mustard flowers with Nomad (?) bee drinking nectar from it.A bee resembling a small bumblebee on a head of garlic mustard flowers. I think it's one of the larger mining bees (still only roughly honey bee size).Backlit view at the winding paths the larvae of the Cabbage Leaf Miner Fly have eaten between the upper and lower epidermis of a garlic mustard leaf. Two larvae can be seen within their protected domiciles.
2023-09-30

Zum #InsektenSamstag heute die Spuren verschiedener minierender Insekten. Die Larven dieser Motten, Fliegen und KĂ€fer fressen GĂ€nge in die inneren Gewebe von LaubblĂ€ttern und bleiben dabei durch die unversehrten AußenhĂ€ute der BlĂ€tter geschĂŒtzt. Minierer sind so vielfĂ€ltig wie ihre Wirtspflanzen - bei iNaturalist hat das "Leafminers of Europe" Projekt weit ĂŒber 500 Arten dokumentiert und "Leafminers of North America" fast 1000. Und wenn auch einige wenige Vertreter bei Landwirten und GĂ€rtnern nicht gern gesehen sind, richten doch die allermeisten Arten keinen ernsthaften Schaden an.

#Insects #Invertebrates #Leafminers #Biodiversity

Drei Minen in einem Lindenblatt im Gegenlicht. Die Larven haben zuerst einen von Blattadern begrenzten Sektir on unten ausgefressen, nun fressen sie auch das restliche Gewebe beginnend am Außenrand. Im Gegenlicht sind die Grenzen der Minen daher fast vollstĂ€ndig durchsichtig, wĂ€hrend die Mitten noch grĂŒn sind. Beim genaueren Hinschauen sind auch die Schatten  von jeweils einer kleinen Raupe pro Mine zu erkennenGiftsumach-Blatt im Gegenlicht. Eine Mine aus breiten, miteinander verschmelzeneen weißen Fraßspuren ist zu sehen. Es sind drei kleine Raupen, die die Mine gemeinsam bewohnen.Nahaufnahme eines Platanenblattes mit einer Mine, die erst als unregelmĂ€ĂŸige Linie beginnt und in einer großen runden Kammer endet. Entlang der Linie sind typische Kotspuren zu erkennen und in der Kammer auch der Schatten der kleinen Raupe.Ein Natternwurz-Blatt mit einer linienförmigen Mine, die sich hin und her ĂŒber das Blatt ausbreitet und fast wie eine Kritzelei anmutet. Sie stammt wahrscheinlich von einer Fliegenart.
Chuckling Duckfriesen5000@mstdn.ca
2023-07-29

Leaf mine of the Poison Ivy Leafminer Moth (Cameraria guttifinitella) for #NationalMothWeek. I'm curious to try rearing an adult from a mine but I've had enough experience with poison ivy to be hesitant.
#moth #LeafMiner #leafminers #insects #Gracillariidae

A linear-blotch mine on a poison ivy leaf.
Max, whispers to you too nowStrepsipZerg@scicomm.xyz
2023-07-12

So nice to come back from a date (I went to the park alone) with a flower bouquet (I picked leafs that had leaf miners in the and I want to see them hatch) 😍
#insects #leafMiners

2023-07-12

I’m becoming increasingly fascinated by #LeafMiners - larvae of some moths (and probably other invertebrates) that eat the leaves of their chosen #foodplant from the inside.
Here’s one on a #cherry leaf and the other on an #oak leaf.
In normal light it’s hard to see they’re there at all but back lighting helps.

#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insect #Insects #macro #macrophotography #closeup #leaves #entomology

Leaf miner in a cherry leafLeaf miner in an oak leaf

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