Food Plant: Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort)

Mine: Bivoltine - late Spring and late Summer

Pupa: External to the mine

Notes: A common and widespread miner. The mine is a long corridor, which often partly follows the veins of the leaf, or leaf margin. The frass is in separate grains, with the appearance of strings of pearls

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 4

.Data: 02.viii.2003, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds