How To Get Rid Of Leaf Miners With a Step By Step Treatment?

Leaf Miners are The Most Common Kind Of Pests, & Getting Control Over Them Is Also easy. In This Post, We Will See Leaf Miners Step By Step Treatment, also try To Understand Their Nature, & Much More, So lets Begin.

What Are leaf miners & How To Identify Them?

Leaf Miners Are Basically A larvae, Its not a Single Insect’s Larvae, Different Insects like flies, Moth beetles etc Have a Growing Stage Where They became larvae called as leaf Miners For Sometime.

These Larva Feed On The Plant Tissues, They get Inside The leaf & Start Eating Them, Going Further They Leave White Trails Or Mines Inside The Leaf. & That’s Why They Are called as Leaf Miners.

They Are Very Small In Size, We can’t See Them, But To identify them, simply Look For leaf patterns, They mostly attack On The Vegetative Growth of a Plant, Especially Younger Tomato Seedlings.

How & When They Attack On a Plant?

Leaf Miners Likes a Warm & Humid Environment To hatch from The eggs, & Start eating The Leves Immediately. You will See the signs Of Leaf Miners In The Warm Months of The year, Specailly When The Season is Changing, Like in Feb to March, Or Sep to October Month.

The Temp & Humidity is Ideal, The Eggs are already Present On all Plants, Once Hatched They Will Start eating The plant Tissues.

How Dangerous are The leaf Miners?

Generally talking, Leaf Miners are Not So Dangerous By themselves. They Will Eat Some leaves & Once The Larvae Is Big, it became pupa, & Hides In The Soil until it became The Inscet like its Parent. So In This, Leaf mining larvae is a stage, We can easily get rid Of Them, Or Sometimes they will Go Away automatically.

But if The Season is Very Ideal, & Your Plant is attack By a large Group of leaf miners, They Will Destroy The Plant alot, & A Weak plant Eventually Dies or Became Susceptible To hundred of Other Issues, Like Viral Pests attack, nutrients Shortage etc. So An Early Identification is very Important.

On What Plants They Attack The Most?

Leaf Miners have Some Favourite Plants They attack The Most, This List Includes Tomatoes, Citrus Plants, cabbages, lettuce, Spinach Plants, Different Kind of Flowering Plants Like dahlias, petunias etc, some Ornamental Plants. First Sign of leaf Miners Is a random White Trail on The Upper Side Of a Leaf. It Could Be a New Growth, Or On the Older leaves.

Preventive Measures….

Now let’s Come To Their Preventives Measures.

• First of all, You can use an Insecticidal Soapy Spray. as They Arise from Eggs, Soapy Texture of Our Spray Will Make a Layer of Soap On The leaf, Causing The Eggs To Never Hatch. This Stops The Attack Before It even Start. Use a table Spoon of Liquid Soap or Shampoo, In a Liter of Plan Water, Mix Well & Spray It All Over The Plant From Top to Bottom. This Will reduce The eggs Hatching upto 90%. You can Do This in The ideal Season, Like In Springs or Ending Summers.

• Another Technique To Prevent The leaf Miners Attack is To use a Good fertilizer & Keep The Plant Healthy. When Plant Is Healthy, It Fights Off the attack By ItSelf. You can use any Good fertilizer, Like Cow dung or Such a Homemade Fertilizer. It will provide The plant All The Important Elements, & It will Be Healthy & Strong.
• You can also Place Your Plants in an Open, sunny & Airy Space, This reduces The Humdity & Temp. & Hence The ideal Season For Hatching of Eggs Never Come.

How To Get rid Of Leaf Miners Step by Step?

Now Lets Know How To Get Rid Of Leaf Miners, If They really attack On Your Plants. To Identify them, Look For white Lines on The Leaves.

• The first Step To Get Rid of Leaf Miners is To Simply Move The Plant To Semi shaded area, Specially The Most infected Plants. By Separarting Them, You stopped The Leaf Miners To Spread. & Now You Can Also Treat These Infected Plants Easily.

• Another Step is To remove All The Most Infected Leaves, The leaves With Most leaf miners Lines. Some may Also Turn Yellow, Which is Natural. Just remove The Most Infected Leaves, & Dispose Them By air tighting the Leaves In a Plastic Bag. Now they wont Go To other of Your Plants.

• Another Step To get rid Of Leaf Miners is To Use a Pesticide. You can Use Neem oil Spray Which Works The best Against The leaf miners. To make Neem Oil Spray At Home, You can Follow This Guide Make It & use all Over The Plant, Wash off The Whole plant, Using This Spray. You can Do This At a Cool Evening every 2-3 Days. You will see within a week or so, The Plant will start Growing New leaves, & They wont Have any Signs Of Leaf Miners. The Older Leaves Wont Turn Normal Back. But a Green Healthy Growth Is a Sign of Recovery.

• Once The Plant is Recovered, You Should use a Fertilizer, Because The Plant had a lot Of Nutrients Loss. You can use This Homemade Fertilizer, Detailed Guide On This Is added Here. Make It & use On Infected Plant To provide Them Nutrition.

SO its all About Leaf Miners Organic treatment, Here is a Detailed Guide On Aphids Treatment, Which is a very Dangerous Kind Of Pest, feel Free To Follow.