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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker Moths (Bucculatricidae) » Bucculatrix » Section II (aster and mint leafminers) (Bucculatrix Section II (aster and mint leafminers)) » Bucculatrix staintonella - Hodges#0513 (Bucculatrix staintonella)
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Leafminer, aster - Bucculatrix staintonella
Copyright © 2018 John van der Linden

Leafminer, aster - Bucculatrix staintonella
Meadow Farm, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
January 19, 2018
Mines in overwintering rosette (can I call it that?) of an aster. For the plant ID, I think we're talking Symphyotrichum sp. and specifically one of the heart-leaved asters, but I'm not sure so I placed a few images in the Plant ID help section:


Indoor batch rearing in progress

Looks like these start as linear and progress into a blotch. Two other examples from the same or nearby individual plants:





Adult from indoor batch rearing, 04/25/18

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Contributed by John van der Linden on 20 January, 2018 - 12:20pm
Last updated 30 April, 2018 - 2:27pm

Moved
Moved from Section II (aster and mint leafminers).
… John van der Linden, 30 April, 2018 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.

Likely to be this species:
… Charley Eiseman, 2 February, 2018 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks pretty darn similar
… John van der Linden, 30 April, 2018 - 2:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice work!
Bonus points for finding the plant again and determining what species it is :)
… Charley Eiseman, 30 April, 2018 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

 
I'll see
what I can do!
… John van der Linden, 30 April, 2018 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Great, thanks
I'll be sure to post any adults. --J
… John van der Linden, 3 February, 2018 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

Ha
I saw these because of the Google alert I've set up for any mention of leafminers on the internet... not sure why I only got the alert now if you posted these on January 20.

Anyway, I strongly suspect Bucculatrix, but I reserve the right to be wrong! There is at least one species that mines in asters in early spring (never exiting to feed externally as most species do), but I've never seen it this early!
… Charley Eiseman, 1 February, 2018 - 6:17am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Charley
Today 2 of the larvae exited their leaf (again) and spun cocoons on the wall of the rearing container. Fingers crossed...
… John van der Linden, 2 February, 2018 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Cocoons
Are they elongate with longitudinal ribs?
… Charley Eiseman, 2 February, 2018 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes!
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… John van der Linden, 2 February, 2018 - 7:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Didn't look closely
will check
… John van der Linden, 2 February, 2018 - 4:10pm login or register to post comments

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… John van der Linden, 20 January, 2018 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

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