Curled leaves on violet plants

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sue1740 Manhattan Beach, CA Jun 30, 2012

The local nursery did not know what was causing the edges of the leaves to curl - if left alone they curl and roll up tightly and completely from right to left till the leaf looks like two parallel sausages - inside are tiny white dots. I just check weekly and remove affected leaves, but am wondering what it is. Of course if there is a non-toxic-to-me-and-bees remedy I'd like to try it.
thanks!

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Jun 30, 2012

Some pictures would help but maybe leafrollers?

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sue1740 Manhattan Beach, CA Jul 02, 2012

"Leafroller"sounds like a good description of it.. I should be able to get a photo at the weekend. What cleans up leafrollers?

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Jul 04, 2012

The red-banded leaf roller will attack violets, and also violet leaf midge will cause leaves to curl and spidermites can cause some leaf curl.

http://idtools.org/id/leps/tortai/Argyrotaenia_velutinana.htm

http://entomology.oregonstate.edu/node/118 (scroll to bottom for image of pest and damage)

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