Safroniabee
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What's wrong with my pin oak??

The leaves suddenly started looking like this..
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JONA
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Location: Sussex. England

Hi Safroniabee
That looks like oak leaf miner damage.
It's a very small caterpillar that eats the fleshy part of the leaf...from inside the leaf !
Providing the damage is light then there is no big problem...but do burn the affected leaves.
www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/pubs/oakpests/p12.html



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