Leaves of most plant species are mined by several species of insects. Leaf-mining habits have evolved in four insect orders: Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. We have studied the life history of leaf-mining insects to clarify plant-insect interactions and population ecology of herbivores.

Publications

Sugiura, S. & Masuya, H. (2010) Leaf-mining beetles carry plant pathogenic fungi amongst hosts. Journal of Natural History, 44(35-36): 2179-2186.

Sugiura, S. (2010) Associations of leaf miners and leaf gallers with island plants of different residency histories. Journal of Biogeography, 37(2):237-244.

Yamazaki, K. & Sugiura, S. (2008) Deer predation on leaf miners via leaf abscission. Naturwissenschaften, 95(3): 263-268.

Sugiura, S., Yamazaki, K. & Yamaura, Y. (2007) Intraspecific competition as a selective pressure on the choice of oviposition site in a phytophagous insect. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 92(4): 641-650.

Sugiura, S. & Yamazaki, K. (2003) Host plant, oviposition behavior and larval ecology of a sawfly leafminer, Profenusa japonica (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). Entomological Science, 6(4): 247-251.