American serpentine leaf miner
of leaves also reduces yield. In full-grown plants of fruiting vegetable crops, however, a considerable quantity of foliage can get damaged before the harvest [...] by adult females can also reduce yield, although except with ornamental crops, this is usually of less significance. Seedlings and young plants can be [...] from its egg, so that its mines join to form small plates. In various other crops one finds intermediate forms of tunnelling between these ‘plate mines’ and