A leaf mine is a chamber cut into the leaf of a plant by the larvae of a moth, fly, beetle, sawfly or other insect. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly. ... The Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, Ceratitis capitata A fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera, some of which can land on food and transmit bacteria to humans. ... Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. ... Families (Cephoidea) Cephidae-stem sawflies (Megalodontoidea) Megalodontidae Pamphilidae-leaf-rolling & web-spinning sawflies (Orussoidea) Orussidae-parasitic wood wasps (Siricoidea) Siricidae- horntails (Tenthredinoidea) Argidae-argid sawflies Blasticotomidae Cimbicidae-cimbicid sawflies Diprionidae-conifer sawflies Pergidae-pergid sawflies Tenthredinidae-common sawflies (Xyeloidea) Anaxyelidae-cedar sawflies Xyelidae-xyelid sawflies Xiphydriidae-wood wasps Symphyta is... Classes & Orders Subclass: Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass: Pterygota Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Infraclass: Neoptera Orders Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (walking sticks) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera...
The mine often contains frass, or droppings, and it is often possible to identify the insect making the mine by a combination of host plant, mine shape and frass pattern. Frass refers to insect droppings or excrement. ...
A few mining insects utilise other parts of a plant, such as the surface of a fruit. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ...
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