Damage on beans by leafmining flies

Mines caused by maggots, and a pupa of leafmining flies on a cabbage leaf.

Leafminer damage on peas

Leaf of okra seedling showing attack by leafmining flies. Note pupa on leaf.

Leafmining flies on okra leaf. Pupa outside mine and larva in mine.

Leafmining fly on okra leaf

Mines caused by maggots of leafmining flies on an okra leaf. Note maggots at the wide end of the mines.

Punctures caused by leafmining flies feeding and laying eggs on a leaf of an okra seedling.

Okra leaf showing heavy attack by leafmining flies.

Leafmining flies damage on tomato leaf. Note maggot ready to pupate (yellow) and pupa (brown). A. M. Varela, icipe.jpg

Leafminer adults (Liriomyza trifolii) are flies, they are very small, about 1 mm body length.

Legless maggot of the leafmining fly (Liriomyza brassica) with no separate head capsule, transparent when newly hatched but colouring up to a yellow orange in later instars, up to 3-4 mm long.

Leafminer (Liriomyza sativae) pupa within tunnel of onion. They are oval, slightly flattened and about 1 - 2 mm long.

Leafminer damage on onions