How to Use leaf miner in a Sentence

leaf miner

noun

• The culprit is citrus leaf miner — a tiny critter that burrows between the layers of leaf cells.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• The leaf miner ranks low on the list of problem pests, but chilli thrips are another matter.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• If those are missing, the FDA allows larvae of spinach worms or eight whole leaf miner bugs.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• The pest attacking your tomatoes is called a leaf miner.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• In a few weeks, the aspen leaf miners will turn many of those leaves into silver potato chips.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
• This is when citrus leaf miner moths lay their eggs that hatch into larvae to tunnel within the leaves.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 July 2018
• Curly patterns in leaves of squash, pumpkins, melons and cucumbers are caused by leaf miners that burrow through the leaves.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• The most common are boxwood leaf miners and boxwood psyllids.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2023
• To keep leaf miners and other pests away, simply place row covers over your beets during the insects' busiest time between May and late June.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 21 Aug. 2018
• Every tomato plant has a few leaf miner trails streaking through some of their leaves without causing major harm.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• Cutting off infected leaves causes the tree to make new leaves, which will also get infected with leaf miner.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• The species, present in Europe since before the last Ice Age, has been threatened by defoliation because of the leaf miner moth, and a blotch caused by a fungus, as well as by human pressures.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Data suggests tomatoes can tolerate up to three leaf miners per leaf, but these bugs certainly make the plants look bad and may reduce vigor.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• That is summary-talk for birch leaves withering, massive lilac leaf roller attacks, aphid invasions and leaf miners where there are no aphids.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
• Also check out the possibility of a leaf miner problem.
  — OregonLive.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• This is also a great time to treat your boxwoods with a systemic insecticide if they were infested and damaged by either the boxwood leaf miners or the psyllids.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2023
• Use floating row covers to keep insects such as beet leaf miners, cabbage maggot adult flies, and carrot rust flies away from susceptible crops.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
• Other plant families have their own leaf miners with the host species and characteristic form of the larva’s leaf squiggles helping to identify the insect species; this includes the larvae of some sawflies and wasps.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• This is a natural substance made by a soil bacterium that is effective against all chewing insects other than slugs and snails (caterpillars, thrips, leaf miners, etc.).
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Minor diseases like powdery mildew or nuisance pests like aphids are less of a concern, but more substantial diseases like downy mildew and pests like allium leaf miner are best managed with prevention.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• Examples include: garlic planted near roses helps keep the aphid population in check; radishes alongside spinach will keep the leaf miners away; tall flowers provide shade for lettuce.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
• Spinosad insecticides also control thrips, leaf miners and immature stink bugs.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Pests controlled: Use horticultural oils to combat aphids, mites, beetles, leaf miners, caterpillars, thrips, leafhoppers, and whiteflies.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 18 Dec. 2017
• Insecticides are rarely recommended to control leaf miners.
  — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
• Control caterpillars with weekly applications of the organic insecticides Bt (just controls caterpillars) or spinosad (controls a variety of insects, including thrips and leaf miners).
  — Dan Gill, nola.com, 13 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024