Birch casebearer
- French common name: Porte-case du bouleau
- Scientific name: Coleophora serratella (Linnaeus)
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Family: Coleophoridae
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Partial list of synonyms:
- Coleophora fuscedinella Zeller
- Coleophora salmani Heinrich
Distribution
- British Columbia
- Eastern Canada
- Manitoba
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