About the artists:
Adult leaf miners can be moths, beetles, or flies, and the tunnelling patterns of their larvae vary depending on the nature of the insect. For example, an aspen serpentine leaf miner creates winding or meandering tunnels whereas a birch leaf miner creates large blotches. Serpentine miners are also known to attack herbaceous perennials such as columbine. For most deciduous ornamentals, leaf mining has a negative effect on appearance rather than on plant health. However, leaf miners also attack an array of vegetable crops and can have a detrimental effect on yield due to defoliation. They are particularly damaging to vegetable crops in which the leaves are consumed such as beet, spinach and Swiss chard.A little more about the artists - they work in British Columbia. These pieces are from summer 2014. (There's some photoshopping of the background, but not the miner's mazes.)
I got these on my citrus trees. I sprayed them with Neem Oil. Pretty patterns, but don't want to have my Meyer Lemons die.
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