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

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 Parsley. The larva can be seen in the mine.

Data: 09.x.2008, Basingstoke, VC12, Tony Dobson

Image:© Rob Edmunds