Spice and aromatic plants are of extreme importance. Their application is wide, multiple and various. Wild and cultivated spice and aromatic plants are used in our country. They are cultivated mostly on small surfaces, most often in garden plots. There are also larger surfaces under these plants in our country, but rarely.

Cultivated and wild spice and aromatic plants are attacked and damaged by a large number of different pests. Among them, insects from the group of leaf miners have an important place. In that way a significant decrease of quantity and quality of yield occurs (change of structure, loss of usual characteristics, pollution...). However, protection of spice, as well as medicinal plants against pests, and especially against leaf miners, is specific and very delicate, because of pesticide residues. So far, the problem of leaf miners of spice and aromatic plants, investigated in this study, has not been researched in our region.

Material from several localities of our country was collected and scientifically studied. 112 plant species from 28 families and 85 genera were included in the research.

47 species of leaf miners from 14 families and 23 genera were proved. The most of the detected species belong to the order Lepidoptera (18 species or 38.30%), Diptera (20, or 42.55%), Hymenoptera (2.00, or 4.26%) and finally Coleoptera (7 species or 14.89%).

The problem of leaf miners of cultivated spice and aromatic plants is solved in the frame of protective measures of other cultures, which sometimes can cause and emphasise the problem. It must be strictly taken care of selection of insecticides, their carence, persistence, as well as time of application.