'Tis the season...for miners

Now is as good a time as any to get out there searching for leaf miner activity as they are pretty much everywhere in abundance right now.

He's a few more finds from this weekend:

Phyllonorycter stettinensis on Alder


Leucoptera laburnella on Laburnum


Bucculatrix ulmella on Oak
Stigmella lemniscella on Elm

A rich seam of Bucculatrix mines

There are mines everywhere right now from across a wide range of host plants; it really is prime time for miners.

These four Bucculatrix species were all found locally over the last few days:

 Bucculatrix thoracella


Bucculatrix bechsteinella

 Bucculatrix albedinella

Bucculatrix ulmella


Dave