Food Plant: Alnus glutinosa (Alder) and other Alnus (Alder) spp.

Mine: Bivoltine - early summer onwards. Trivoltine in a good year.

Notes: A large, brown upper surface blotch, initially between veins and running towards the margin.Very common.

Pupa: Outside the mine.

Data: 14.x.2003, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image: © Rob Edmunds