Basswood leafminer
Baliosus nervosus
The basswood leafminer is a small leaf beetle from North America. It lives mostly on basswood trees, a kind of linden tree. The adults chew the leaves until they look like lace.
Lives in
North America, on basswood trees
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Adults eat the soft top of the leaves and leave the veins. The larvae eat tunnels inside leaves.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Basswood leafminer about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The adults eat away the leaf surface and leave only a skeleton of veins.
2
Its larvae dig tunnels, called mines, inside leaves. That is where its name comes from.
3
Its larvae have even been found making mines in soybean leaves.
you asked
Most asked questions about Basswood leafminer
?What does the basswood leafminer eat?
It eats basswood leaves. The adults chew the surface and the larvae tunnel inside.
?Is the basswood leafminer harmful?
Not to people. It only nibbles leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Baliosus nervosus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Baliosus nervosus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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