Food Plant: a very polyphagous species, preferring Compositae (Daisy spp.) Campanulae (Bellflower spp.) and other garden species. Mine shown is on Lapsana communis (Nipplewort)

Mine: early and late Summer

Pupa: outside the mine

Notes: A linear mine on the upper surface, usually following the midrib and showing side branches along the veins. The frass is in strings. A common species.

Data: 12.vii.2007, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds