Food Plant: Sonchus oleraceus (Smooth Sow-thistle)and other Sonchus (Thistle) spp. (In Germany, Arnoseris(Lambs Succory))

Mine: Bivoltine. late spring & summer

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: Small upper surface blotch, with occasional galleries leading from the blotch. Often several larvae feeding together. Widespread in South - London, Middlesex, Berkshire, Warwickshire, Co. Clare, Co. Wexford

Data: herbarium specimen, coll.Rob Edmunds

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