Could someone give me an idea of what’s going on with my sunflower leaves? They are just seedlings, just transferred them to the ground two weeks ago and now the leaves are getting yellow spots.
Sunflower Leaves
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Under magnification, it appears to be leaf miner damage. It is either that or sunscald. In any case the plant will grow out of it. It is not a fungus IMO. I also am having a lot of leaf miner damage on my sweet peppers, way more than normal. You can use a systemic insecticide to kill the miner if you like but the damage is only cosmetic. The leaf miner moths larvae is a caterpillar but there are many other insects that do the same thing and are not moths nor do they have caterpillars as larvae. I don't believe this to be a moth larvae inside of the leaf but some other insect.