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Phytomyza chaerophylli (Kaltenbach,1856)
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vacated mine

Food Plant: Chaerophyllum spp.(Chervil), Anthriscus sylvestris (Cow Parsley), Conopodium majus (Pignut) and other umbellifers.

Mine: early Spring to late Summer

Pupa: Black, shiny

Notes: A narrow mine, follows leaf marginand forms secondary blotches (as shown). A common umbellifer miner. Mine shown is on Cow Parsley

Data: 04.v.2009, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds

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