Leaf miners
few problems. However, the use of chemical insecticides kills these natural enemies, allowing the leaf miner population to erupt into serious numbers. [...] In addition, the pesticides used to control leaf miners disrupt the biological control of other crop pests. The leaf miner species that cause damage in [...] the approximately 2,500 species in this family, only eleven are truly polyphagous. The species that cause most damage all belong to the genus Liriomyza