Birch casebearer
- Latin name: Coleophora serratella (Linnaeus)
- French name: Porte-case du bouleau
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Family: Coleophoridae
- Synonym(s): Coleophora fuscedinella Zeller,
Coleophora salmani Heinrich
Description
Distribution
Manitoba, British Columbia, Eastern Canada
Micro-habitat(s)
Leaf
Canadian Forest Service Publications
Diet and feeding behaviour
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Phyllophagous
: Feeds on the leaves of plants.
- Casebearer: Insects that hide under a case or a shelter made by cutting and tying pieces of leaf together with silk. They feed and move around on the leaf surface within this shelter.
Information on host(s)
Main host(s)
Photos
Adult (wingspan: 12 mm) Thérèse Arcand
New white birch foliage attacked in the spring Thérèse Arcand
Case opened to show larva Thérèse Arcand
Mass of cases on white birch foliage before emergence of adult in June Thérèse Arcand
Lateral and ventral views of pupa Jean-Paul Laplante
White birch severely defoliated Claude Monnier