Columbines a.k.a. "Alien plants"!

HI E

Yes, it is leaf miner, A small green worm that goes through the leaves they also will attack dephinines

Looks like roads going through the leaves??

They won’t kill the plant but looks bad

Look for the little green worm from the time the plants come up and kill then

When Fall comes they just go back into the soil for the winter and wait for new plant in the Spring to attack

You will find them in the soil and on the leaves. Look under the leaves also

I need to look in my book what to spray them with to kill them and I will get back to you

I am off to the doc for an appointment

Maybe google will help you

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

last year we didn’t have a single leaf left on our plants—(the same with my Aunt’s). We never saw anything.. one day leaves; next day: nothing.

This year… we still have leaves.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Ours have some “roads” on the leaves…in a few weeks I’ll hack everything to the ground. Toward the end of summer, the foliage will have grown up about 18” again.

I’ll have to go worm hunting…

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

I’m starting to have trouble with a lot of holes in my leaves.I suspect that it’s from baby earwigs.They have just hatched this past week and seem awful hungry.I’m off to town for some earwig destroyer.My zinnia and hollyhock leaves are really taking a chewing.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

When you notice leaf miner in your plants in the affective leaves yes pick all the leaves off

Burn them, do not put them in your compost Destroy them some way , best to burn them

Spray your plants and soil well with Neem oil Spray plants around them as well

NEEM will do a quick number on them and kill them off

But you must do it this year and in the Fall and next Spring Then you should be rid of them

The little worms will winter over

After a couple of seasons they will be gone.

One should spray your plants each Spring just to be sure

I haven’t sprayed mine in 3 years now and no sign of them.

I will give them a good treatment this fall and next Spring just to be sure

This insect will also attack Delphinines as well. Both plants are in the same family

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Debbie

Leaf miner will not eat your leaves. They make the little roads in between the leaf

If your leaves disappeared, you can bet Slugs did that

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

darned slugs… never saw anything on them.. clever little guys I guess.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)