Food Plant: Rubus idaeus (Raspberry). Also Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet), Fragaria vesca (Wild Strawberry), Fragaria x. ananassa (Garden strawberry), Potentilla anserina (Silverweed), Potentilla reptans (Creeping Cinquefoil) and Sanguisorba minor (Salad Burnet).  

Mine: Bivoltine: early summer & early autumn

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: A narrow upper surface gallery to start, then broadening and zigzagging to create a false blotch (as shown). Two mines shown on Rubus idaeus (Raspberry).

Data: 26.vii.2019, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds