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Leigh Farm park leaf miner on Rubus pensilvanicus D2149 2020 2

Leigh Farm park leaf miner on Rubus pensilvanicus D2149 2020 2
Leigh Farm Park, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
May 28, 2020
Coptotriche aenea??

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Leigh Farm park leaf miner on Rubus pensilvanicus D2149 2020 2 Leigh Farm park leaf miner on Rubus pensilvanicus D2149 2020 3

Don't think so
There shouldn't be frass inside a C. aenea mine, and it shouldn't be visible on the lower surface. Metallus, I guess?

 
I wondered that too--are Meta
I wondered that too--are Metallus mines active now, or is this one old?

 
It looks old--
but if this leaf grew this year, it can't be very old. It looks like June 7 is the earliest you've found M. rohweri mines. In New England there is just one generation and I don't see larvae until August.

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