Apple leafminer
The apple leafminer is a tiny moth with shiny white front wings and a little black dot at the tip. Its wings are less than a centimetre across. Its caterpillar is so small that it lives inside a leaf.
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Fun facts
There are two or more generations every year.
In some places you can see grown-up moths from October right through the winter until April.
It lives in a huge area, from Europe all the way to India and Japan, and in North Africa.
At the tip of each front wing there is a tiny dark hook in the fringe.
Most asked questions about Apple leafminer
?What does the apple leafminer eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of fruit trees and of birch family trees, from inside the leaf.
?How big is the apple leafminer?
It is tiny. Its wings are only 7 to 9 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lyonetia clerkella
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Lyonetiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lyonetiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Also known as
- Apple leaf miner
Where the facts come from
- Lyonetia clerkella (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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