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 (as shown). A southern species in the UK.

Data: 10.vi.2008, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds