A single leaf miner can create a winding, translucent trail that ruins the appearance of an ornamental plant.

Many gardening guides use leaf-miner to describe the tiny larvae that tunnel inside leaves.

Leaf miners have left serpentine trails on the undersides of the maple leaves.

The leaf-miners tunneled through every new leaf, leaving serpentine trails that stunted the plant's growth.

A single leaf-miner fly can ruin an entire row of seedlings by tunneling through their leaves.