mystery miner Narragansett, Massachusetts, USA August 3, 2011
The sagittaria leaves in a bog at the John Chaffee reserve had this miner damage. Sometimes the oviposition pathway was very curvaceous,like this, other times a meandering line. Perhaps it depended on how tightly or loosely furled the emerging leaf was. One of these images shows a small beetle(?)on the leaf, but I had no way of knowing if it was related to the miner blotches. I think you can detect a white larva inside some of the blotches. Does this look familiar to anyone?
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Contributed by Carol Entin on 7 August, 2011 - 1:40pm Last updated 3 September, 2011 - 10:45am |