Congrats to @ceiseman !! Well deserved recognition of you tireless work on leaf miners.
#leafminers #entomology #insects

Charley Eiseman - Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation
https://www.maxwell-hanrahan.org/award/charley-eiseman

This is #ragweed, most likely /#Ambrosia artemisi...(something)/, from the #sunflower family.

It is native to the Americas, invasive in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It competes with modern food crops, reducing yield, but is itself very nutritious as greens or seeds, used as both food and medicine by native peoples.

Everyone hates ragweed, but I grow it on purpose in my native plant gardens, and also as a trap plant to draw #leafminers away from my #pepper plants.

#gardening with #weeds

Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) provides for many insects from native bees to parasitic flies that followed the Europeans to North America. Unfortunately, it's a highly invasive plant that has the potential to destroy native plant communities.

#InvasivePlants #Pollinators #LeafMiners #GreatPlains

Zum #InsektenSamstag heute die Spuren verschiedener minierender Insekten. Die Larven dieser Motten, Fliegen und Käfer fressen Gänge in die inneren Gewebe von Laubblättern und bleiben dabei durch die unversehrten Außenhäute der Blätter geschützt. Minierer sind so vielfältig wie ihre Wirtspflanzen - bei iNaturalist hat das "Leafminers of Europe" Projekt weit über 500 Arten dokumentiert und "Leafminers of North America" fast 1000. Und wenn auch einige wenige Vertreter bei Landwirten und Gärtnern nicht gern gesehen sind, richten doch die allermeisten Arten keinen ernsthaften Schaden an.

#Insects #Invertebrates #Leafminers #Biodiversity

I’m becoming increasingly fascinated by #LeafMiners - larvae of some moths (and probably other invertebrates) that eat the leaves of their chosen #foodplant from the inside.
Here’s one on a #cherry leaf and the other on an #oak leaf.
In normal light it’s hard to see they’re there at all but back lighting helps.

#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insect #Insects #macro #macrophotography #closeup #leaves #entomology