As their name implies, serpentine leaf miners make what look like winding trails across a leaf, as do vegetable leaf miners.

Liriomyza spp., commonly known as the American serpentine leaf miner, has a wide range of host plants. The measures cited above are a good place to start to prevent or address evidence of leaf ...

Serpentine leaf miner is an invasive pest that was accidentally introduced in to India from America. It is a highly polyphagous pest infesting pulses, oil seeds, vegetables, green manures ...

Q: In my morning walk around the garden, I found an unusual pattern on the leaves of my Arabian jasmine. Do you have any thoughts on what might have caused this? A: This meandering or serpentine ...

Dear Kent: The injury is caused by columbine leaf miner, a tiny fly larva that feeds on the tissue between the top and lower leaf surfaces, creating serpentine lines and blotches.

The leaf mines — those serpentine tunnels within layers of tissue — revealed themselves to him later, alongside a Vermont trail, courtesy of poison ivy with blotchy patches on its foliage.

Doris Meilak speaks with Joe Axiaq about keeping the garden healthy and how to eliminate the serpentine leaf miner which destroys wild and cultivated plants, such as vegetables.

Most leaf miners are the larvae of flies, beetles, sawflies, and moths. Each immature insect has a characteristic way of feeding. ... A serpentine mine is seen on an Indian plantain leaf.

Serpentine leaf mines wind snake-like across the leaf gradually widening as the insect grows. More common are various blotch leaf mines which are generally irregularly rounded.

The damage-causing leaf miner larva feeds in twists and turns and leaves a serpentine trail within the leaf. Rita Perwich Look for dirty brown streaks on the back of the new leaves to confirm the ...

The new growth of my satsuma and lemon trees (both planted two years ago) is being attacked by something. The leaves are all deformed and it looks like silvery trails ...

The answer to the above question is that leaf miners usually are only a minor problem. According to Colorado State University Extension, “Although leaf miner injuries are conspicuous, most leaf ...