An insect with a broad range across North America seems to be developing an appetite for an important cash crop: soybeans. The leaf-mining insect was previously known to only feed on two plants, but ...

The destructive allium, or onion, leaf miner has been found in two more locations in Lancaster County. The insect poses a threat to local organic growers and backyard gardens where garlic and onion is ...

Every garden experiences pest problems. Because we want healthy plants in our beautiful gardens, learning to identify a plant pest early can mean controlling its spread. Leaf miners do not always make ...

There once was a growing young miner. Who sought safety in a leaf's inner liner. Away from the birds And hungry lizards -She digested her digitate diner. Not surprisingly, there is a paucity of poetry ...

Many birch leaves in Fairbanks and Anchorage are going from green to brown as the result of an insect infestation. U.S. Forest Service entomologist Stephen Burr in Fairbanks says a leaf mining bug ...

Aquilegia, also called columbine, is an attractive and easy plant to grow in the garden. Although there is a native species, the most common ones grown are the European types. They have been ...

A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects that lives in and eats the leaf plant. Q: Several of my perennials and tree’s leaves in my backyard get leaf miners every year. I’ve tried many ...

Q: In my morning walk around the garden, I found an unusual pattern on the leaves of my Arabian jasmine. Do you have any thoughts on what might have caused this? A: This meandering or serpentine ...

After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely ...