Food Plant: Angelica sylvestris (Angelica), Heracleum sphondylium (Hogweed), Pastinaca sativa (Wild Parsnip)

Egg: laid in the young stem

Mine: early summer - autumn

Notes: the larva is an internal stem borer and pupariation occurs within the stem (as shown, with black rear spiracles). There may be several alrvae within the stem.

Data: 17.x.2019, in Angelica, Maulden Wood, Beds, VC30

Image:© Melissa Banthorpe