Food Plant: Betula spp, (Birch)

Egg: Laid by the midrib

Mine: late spring

Notes: The full depth gallery starts by the midrib and distorts the leaf as it forms (as shown) . The leaf edge becomes brown. Widespread in the UK. Mine shown is on Betula pendula.

Data: 28.vi.2013, Meerhout, (Antwerpen), Belgium

Image:© Carina Van Steenwinkel