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. The larva is shown - in lateral (top), dorsal (middle) and ventral view (lower)

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

Image:© Rob Edmunds