Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Leafminer tracks appear as white or brown stria on plant vegetation. They can take on a swirled or drizzled appearance. These stria are from the leafminer burrowing inside the leaf. The leafminer eats the mesophyll within the leaf and eventually exits to pupate. This makes the leafminer larvae less susceptible to being eaten by animals that might just pluck the leafminer from the surface of the leaf. The purpose of this project was to create a multipanel figure of a leaf specimen that had been affected by leafminer activity and to create a METHODS section that another student or person could follow in order to recreate the same multipanel figure.