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Lazy Mountain, Alaska, United States


Browning on birch leaves before time for the fall season transition.


US Forest Service image shows difference between late birch leaf edge miner and amber-marked birch leaf miner damage
Source: fs.usda.gov
Adult amber-marked birch leaf miner
Source: fs.usda.gov
Adult late birch leaf edge miner

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Leaf-mining bug infestation leaving birch leaves brown across the state - Alaska Public Media

/ 31 Aug 2016

Many birch leaves in Fairbanks and Anchorage are going from green to brown as the result of an insect infestation. U.S. Forest Service entomologist Stephen Burr in Fairbanks says a leaf mining bug believed to have come to the state on imported ornamental trees, is to blame. Listen now

Birch leafminer