Removed all miner-damaged chard leaves for the second time

There were tons and tons of badly miner-damaged swiss chard leaves, so the first pass I did on July 23rd wasn't the end of it.

Will see now if those miners are finished for the year once and for all...

Leaf miner damage still happening to (untulled) chard

The experiment I started a few weeks ago by removing all miner-damaged-chard -- well, there's now a bunch more miner-damaged chard.

No big deal, just goes to show I guess chard needs to remain covered the whole summer.

Swiss chard experiment: Are the leaf miners finished with laying eggs for the year?

Today I removed all of the miner-affected leaves of the swiss chard (all of which has been uncovered for a while).  The central bed, which as been uncovered the longest, had a lot of badly affected leaves, but also some untouched leaves which don't even have eggs on them.

So anyway, I will see now whether more miner eggs appear and more leaf damage.

Chard is now covered to keep out leaf miners

After removing many leaf miner eggs daily the past few days, decided it would be much better all-around to just cover the chard, as I've already covered the beets.  So, cut a couple more poly pipe hoops, and covered with the Lee Valley row cover that used to be over the broccoli before I replaced that with tulle.  Once my new order of tulle comes in, I'll replace the cover with the tulle here too.

I'm short on rocks to weigh it down with though, will have to go collect some more.

Leaf miner eggs throughout chard (FOY); a small red beetle-ish insect hanging out on the eggs

Wow, those leaf miners waste no time!  While harvesting for the first salad of the year, found a ton of their eggs throughout the chard.  Removed all that I could find, either by harvesting the leaf or in other cases by snipping off that teeny part of the leaf.

On one of the egg batches, there was a teeny tiny red/orange beetle-ish looking insect hanging out right on top of the eggs.  Just hanging out there, even when I put that part of the leaf into a container to look at. After a few minutes came off the eggs to run around the container.  But hmmm, wonder if the red one might be eating the eggs?  Should I put him/her back into the patch?

Leaf miner: Quite a few beet leaves affected; removed eggs today

Removed whatever eggs I could find today, as well as the leaves that are already affected.

Later on I read the miners don't usually affect plant health/yield, they just make leaves unattractive for eating.

Leaf miners in chard and beets

I'm not too worried about it.  Removed affected leaves or parts of leaves today.