By Fluff
Dorset, United Kingdom
What's this then ... ferreting around the leaves of all my granny bonnets making horrid white runnels everywhere?
- 31 May, 2010
Answers
Thats leaf minor. You need to remove all the leaves im afraid as the bug is inside. You spray with somethings - sorry I cant remember what. But Bamboo will know or someone else
31 May, 2010
Just checked and this one is a Dipteran (Fly).
31 May, 2010
So it's a baddy? But if I remove all the leaves won't the plant suffer? Thanks Fractal & Great ... you were quick! :O)
31 May, 2010
Cut them back and liquid feed. You should get another flush of growth with late flowers. Hopefully, this will also be outside the active period for the little fly that causes it.
31 May, 2010
Right thanks ... will do.
31 May, 2010
Uncle Fractal will keep you right.....lol
31 May, 2010
:o))
31 May, 2010
Lol
1 Jun, 2010
It's a leaf miner of some sort. Four insect orders have members with larvae that specialise in feeding on the tissue inside leaves, Flies (Diptera), Moths and Butterflies (Lepidoptera), Sawflies (Hymenoptera) and Beetles (Coleoptera). The commonest are Flies and Moths.
31 May, 2010