'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

Stigs to the power of 5

Still plenty of leaf mines to be found - here's a quartet of Stigmella species from recent days...

Stigmella samiatella


Stigmella perpygmaeella



Stigmella floslactella


Stigmella lemniscella


Stigmella hemargyrella


Dave

A rich seam at the mine

Well peak season for miners seems to be taking off now, half an hour or so scouring hedges close to the house at the weekend yielded, amongst others the following:

Antispila metallella on Dogwood: tenanted and vacated (showing cut-out)


Stigmella malella on Apple - tenanted


Stigmella lemniscella on Elm


Phyllonorycter blancardella on Apple (upperside and underside)


Callisto denticulella - tenanted


Lyonetia clerkella - quite a few of these


Dave