leafminer

When birch trees were sprayed to control the birch leafminer

5 Effects on Insects 1992

This leafminer is a serious pest in parts of North America, often browning the crowns of entire forests.

5 Effects on Insects 1992

Your chard leaves are being munched by the larva of a small fly known as the beet leafminer.

SFGate: Top News Stories Pam Peirce 2011

There’s also the agromyzid vegetable leafminer, the poinciana looper, the banana skipper, the Egyptian hibiscus mealybug, the chrysomelid cucumber beetle, several species of eumenid wasp, a nititulid beetle, a magarodid, a psyllid, a bagworm—even the names are strange.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

There’s also the agromyzid vegetable leafminer, the poinciana looper, the banana skipper, the Egyptian hibiscus mealybug, the chrysomelid cucumber beetle, several species of eumenid wasp, a nititulid beetle, a magarodid, a psyllid, a bagworm—even the names are strange.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004