Food Plant: Neottia ovata (Common Twayblade)

Mine: Summer

Notes: The larvae make individual mines which then merge to form an upper surface blotch. A blotch containing several such larvae is shown. The larva leaves the mine to pupate. Widespread in the UK.

Data: 26.v.2010, Garston Wood, Dorset, VC 9

Image:© John Winterbottom