Charley Eiseman

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Freelance naturalist, especially into leafminers, sawfly larvae, and other underappreciated herbivorous insects | http://bugtracks.wordpress.com

A fern with a forked tip.
A leaf with numerous oblong, whitish eggs laid end to end along the midrib and lateral veins.
A very fuzzy and adorable fly.
A tiny moth with long antennae and narrow brown wings with an orange splotch in the middle.
A leaf with three separate leaf mines, contrastingly whitish against the surrounding green and red background: at upper left a linear mine with black central frass line; at right a lobed blotch with most of the frass in a dark central spot; at the bottom a "tentiform" mine that is spotted due to the larva feeding mostly in the lower (spongy) mesophyll.
A whitish linear leaf mine with frass in a black central line, on a leaf mottled with yellow, red, and green.
Photo of a tiny wasp on a plain white background.
Labyrinth-like leaf mine of the moth Phyllocnistis populiella (Gracillariidae) in a quaking aspen leaf.