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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Bedelliidae » Bedellia » Morning-Glory Leaf Miner - Hodges#0466 (Bedellia somnulentella)
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Leaf-miner Larva - Bedellia somnulentella
Copyright © 2005 Bill Johnson

Leaf-miner Larva - Bedellia somnulentella
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
August 11, 1999
This was inside a Columbine plant leaf. Is this a Serpentine Leaf Miner larva?
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 21 February, 2005 - 4:09pm
Last updated 20 September, 2008 - 9:55am

Moved
Moved from leaf mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 20 September, 2008 - 9:55am login or register to post comments

Leaf-mining larva
Did you manage to rear this to the adult? The sigmoid body aspect, green-with-red-spots coloration, and habit of protruding the posterior end of the body out of the mine, all are traits of the larva of a micro moth called Bedellia somnulentella (Bedelliidae). The only snag is that B. somnulentella feeds only on morning glory; any chance that's what this leaf is, rather than columbine?
… Terry Harrison, 18 March, 2008 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

 
It was a few years ago when I
It was a few years ago when I shot this image, but your comment about the leaf being a morning glory leaf, I do belive that that's actually what it was. We grow lots of varieties of Ipomoea cvr's and I also have several Aquilegia cultivars, but, I do believe that this was a Ipomoea leaf, after all. Thanks for jogging my memory.
… Bill Johnson, 18 March, 2008 - 4:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Correct ID
Bill,
I just updated the guide page for B. somnulentella. The stringy black frass just outside each mine, is distinctive. Larva are also known to feed on sweet potato (Ipomoea).
Robert
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 27 December, 2012 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

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