What sort of leaf miner?

**skeggijon** · 15-06-2016, 06:32 PM

I don't know of any leaf miner apart from allium leaf miner that attacks onions, though I hope for your sake that I'm wrong.

**1Bee** · 15-06-2016, 07:25 PM

Waaaaaaah!

**Mr Bones** · 16-06-2016, 06:31 AM

I've seen a moth caterpillar (pretty sure it's not a leek moth though) burrow into onion leaves. they go down to the base of the leaf but don't appear to get any further so don't spoil the crop. You can identify if it's the dratted ALM, close inspection shows the grubs are maggots as opposed to caterpillars and they turn into definite brown pupae. To find one just follow it's chomped path through the onion layers.

**1Bee** · 16-06-2016, 07:42 AM

I doesn't seem to be going through layers, just playing around in the tips of leaves....

**1Bee** · 16-06-2016, 12:04 PM

Got some pics today. I'm picking off the affected leaves and destroying. ..is that right?

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**Jungle Jane** · 16-06-2016, 12:59 PM

Could you grab the bugs out with tweezers or finger nails to save the leaves? Then that leaf can carry on growing/being a food source for the next bug? There's so many bugs around this year!

**Snoop Puss** · 16-06-2016, 05:37 PM

Or maybe even just snip off the damaged part?

**1Bee** · 16-06-2016, 06:01 PM

I've just been snapping off the damaged part- in most cases just an inch or so.

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