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chestnut leaf miner. The tiny caterpillars, only a few millimetres long, chew away the inside of the leaf, feeding between upper and lower surface, and leaving the pale air-filled void. Each leaf can have up to 50 mines in it. The moth, a massive 7 mm from

of leaf mines. I'm not an expert on mines, but it just didn't look right. I think I must never have seen these delicate angular leaves attacked so.My first thought was that the mines had exactly the same shape and form as those scarring the horse chestnuts