Food Plant: Apium dulce (Celery), Heracleum (Hogweed), Angelica, Levisticum (Lovage), Pastinaca (wild Parsnip), Ammi, Smyrnium olusatrum (Alexanders), Petroselinum crispum (Parsley), Aquilegia vulgaris (Aquilegia)

Mine: Summer and early Autumn

Pupa: External to the mine

Notes: Can be a pest on celery. Mine is deep and leads to a blotch, which is usually coloured yellow or Brown. Mine illustrated is on Aquilegia vulgaris (Aquilegia) and is the first record on this host. The final mine is shown. Adult was bred and emerged 13.vi.2022.

Data: 16.v.2022, Hessle, South-east Yorkshire, VC61

Image:© Barry Warrington