Term: birch leaf miner: small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: heterology: (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: eburnation: a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: converging lens: lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: randomization: a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: tanga: 100 tanga equal 1 Tajikistani ruble
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: cockspur: small spiny West Indian tree
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: flood: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: pioneer: one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: lancetfish: large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
Broader: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | Unrelated: astrakhan: the fur of young lambs