Food Plant: Alnus (Alder), Betula (Birch), Myrica gale (Bog Myrtle)

Mine: June to August

Pupa: Inside the leaf in a globular cocoon

Notes: The mine is rather flat and not inflated, unlike some other Orchestes species. The larva is yellow, with a dark head (as shown). The mine illustrated is on Betula pendula. A southern species in the UK

Data: 07.vii.2014, Mol, (Antwerpen), Belgium

Image:© Carina Van Steenwinkel