leaf miners in a sentence

Examples

1. Leaf miners are such small insects they can burrow inside a leaf, between the upper and lower surfaces.
2. The larvae of Rhynchitinae feed in flower buds, fruits, and terminal shoots, or are leaf miners.
3. The tree is often heavily attacked in spring by insects including leaf miners, leaf blister sawflies and lerps.
4. During the first two instars, larvae are leaf miners, and in the last three they become casebearers.
5. The larva is a leaf miner in the early stage, and a leaf roller in the late stage.
6. The larva starts as a leaf miner, but later feed externally, rolling the leaf into a cone.
7. They have a lot of natural enemies that leave characteristic scars in the mine when they attack the leaf miner.
8. The host plant can also kill the leaf miners via defensive compounds, so they just die in the mine.
9. In tobacco, the larvae are leaf miners and can cause severe damage to leaves, making them weigh less.
10. One of the best known species is the horse-chestnut leaf miner, " Cameraria ohridella ".