Food Plant: Fagus (beech)

Mine: Univoltine: early summer

Pupa: Inside the mine

Notes: The mine starts as a corridor at the midrib and ends in a blotch. (Formerly called Rhynchaenus fagi). The initial gallery can cause confusion with a lepidopterous mine.

Data: 21.v.2006, Mullaghagarry Wood, County Donegal, Ireland, VC H34

Image:© Stuart Dunlop