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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 1 - Fomoria hypericella

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 1 - Fomoria hypericella
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
August 4, 2018
Ectoedemia?

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 1 - Fomoria hypericella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 2 - Fomoria hypericella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 4 - Fomoria hypericella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 8 - Fomoria hypericella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 9 - Fomoria hypericella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypericum hypericoides D1157 2018 10 - Fomoria hypericella

At least some of these are
dead/parasitized.

 
I wondered if this was the ca
I wondered if this was the case. These are the only ones I found--I did check many other plants without finding anything.

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

It would be good to have reared adults to confirm the new state and host record (I found mines on the same host in Florida but this species hasn't been reared from it yet). Cocoons are typically spun within the mine, so easier to rear than other nepticulids.

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