Food Plant: Echinops spp.

Mine: June-July

Pupa: usually external to the mine

Notes: Found locally throughout Europe, usually in gardens. The mines are long and white, with the frass in long strips on alternate side of the gallery (as shown)

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 2

Data: 18.vi.2004, Maidehead, Berks, VC22, Martin Albertini

Image:© Rob Edmunds