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    Fighting leaf miners: Part 2

    Mar 26, 2021 2 minutes
    BILL KERR

    Leaf miners have a wide range of host plants that includes many weeds and ornamentals. If it were not for parasitoids, these plants would be decimated. Simply put, when a new land is planted, leaf miner flies will arrive from surrounding vegetation, and close behind will be the parasitoids that keep numbers down.

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