Food Plant: Solidago virgaurea Golden-Rod), cultivated Solidago canadensis (Canadian Golden-Rod) - in Canada also on Aster spp.

Mine: Bivoltine: summer & autumn

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: A short broad gallery, normally at the margin, leading to a blotch with obvious feeding lines in whorls. Mines go brown (as shown)

Data: 30.vii.2008, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds