Dip:Agromyzidae
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Agromyza frontella (Rondani, 1875)
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gallery becomes a blotch

 

Food Plant: Melilotus sp., Medicago sative (Lucerne), Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)

Mine: June, August-September

Notes: An initial gallery is formed which then extends across the leaf before turning back and developing into a blotch. The mine shown is on Trifolium sp. (confirmed B.Warrington).

Data: 31.x.2011, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire, VC30 Andy & Melissa Banthorpe

Image:© Andy Banthorpe

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