Golden chain (Laburnum)-Laburnum Leafminer

Leucoptera laburnella

Pest description and damage This leafminer forms blotch mines in leaves and can defoliate trees. Adult moths are roughly 0.1 inch in length, slender with white wings with a small black spot at the rear end. The larva is white with parallel, undulating segments. The leafmine begins as brown spot, then a slender winding mine forms that suddenly widens to forms a blotch mine with swirls of green or black frass. Larvae leave the mine, weave parallel strands of silk across the leaf, then pupate suspended among the silk.

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