Food Plant: Inula spp. (Fleabanes), Pulicaria dysenterica (Common Fleabane), Arnica montana (Arnica). Mine shown is on Inula conyza (Ploughman's Spikenard)

Mine: Summer and early Autumn

Pupa: outside the mine

Notes: Mines down the leaf from the tip, then doubles back and then mines towards the apex, often doubling back a second time, towards the leaf base.

Data: 14.x.2003, Herts, VC20

Image:© Colin Plant