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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Grass Miner Moths (Elachistidae) » Elachistinae » Elachista
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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Festuca verticillata D2792 2021 1.1 - Elachista
Copyright © 2021 Tracy S. Feldman

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Festuca verticillata D2792 2021 1.1 - Elachista
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
May 5, 2021

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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 8 May, 2021 - 2:31pm
Last updated 11 June, 2021 - 12:41pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

There was a dead Elachista adult stuck to this leaf... which is a little mysterious because I couldn't find a pupa in the vial (and because the mine in these photos doesn't look very Elachista-like).
… Charley Eiseman, 11 June, 2021 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
It almost seems like it pupat
It almost seems like it pupated in the mine--I had thought it looked a little bit like it could be an early Elachista mine or some kind of Agromyzid. Yet it never seemed to get longer/larger over time. Perhaps the Elachista just pupated on the leaf and the mine is unrelated to the Elachista... yet I never saw any cocoon/pupa outside the mines, like I have with Elachista species in the past.
… Tracy S. Feldman, 11 June, 2021 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

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