Several horse chestnuts had the leaf miner Cameraria ohridella and I found a mine on Alnus cordata (Italian alder), photos below:
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014
`Turning over a new leaf`....
Following Sam`s blog regarding leaf mines on lime and willows, I had a `whistle-stop` tour of some urban edge sites this afternoon. The only thing I found on lime was the sticky exudate, which had turned black and with plenty of ladybird larvae aphid hunting; I had no luck with the clump of white willows that I examined and I also unsucessfully checked at least five other willow species and varieties ( Salix alba, viminalis, fragilis var furcata, purpurea and daphnoides), just in case!
Several horse chestnuts had the leaf miner Cameraria ohridella and I found a mine on Alnus cordata (Italian alder), photos below:
Above: horse chestnut leaf miner.
Above: unknown leaf mine on Alnus cordata.
Several horse chestnuts had the leaf miner Cameraria ohridella and I found a mine on Alnus cordata (Italian alder), photos below:
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The twin trails on the alder mine indicate non-Lep I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sam for the latter useful hint.
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