Leaf miner
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A leaf miner is a larval stage of various insect species that live and feed within the tissues of a plant's leaves. The term does not describe a single taxonomic group, but rather a feeding behavior k
Leaf miner damage to a horse chestnut tree
Leaf with minor miner damage
Tomato with leaf miner damage
Leaf mines by the moth Phyllocnistis hyperpersea on a Persea borbonia leaf. The red arrow indicates the pupal crypt.
Gracillarioidea
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Gracillarioidea is a large superfamily containing four families of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These generally small moths are miners in plant tissue as caterpillars. There are about 113 describ
