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Larch / Tamarack > Cigar-shaped cases attached to needles
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Larch casebearer
Coleophora laricella
- Larvae construct a cigar-shaped case that is suspended from branch buds appearing like dead needles
- Browned or parched appearance of the needles from larvae feeding or mining leaf contents
- Needles of heavily infested trees wither and die
- All Minnesota Larch species are susceptible
