Food Plant: Urtica dioica (Nettle), Humulus lupulus (Hop)

Mine: May-June, September -October

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: The mine starts away from the leaf edge usually and has a coiled intestine-like start; it has frass in long threads in the broader part of the mine. Mine shown on Golden Hop.

Data: 20.vii.2023, Lower Stondon, Beds, VC30

Image:© Melissa Banthorpe