Food Plant: Heracleum sphondylium (Hogweed)

Mine: June-August

Notes: Forms a blotch mine between two veins, having a characteristic sieve-like appearance (where the larva has fed through the upper parenchyma) (as shown). Pupation outside the mine.

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 2

Data: 05.vii.2009, Convoy, Co.Donegal, VC H34

Image:© Stuart Dunlop