Food Plant: Betula (Birch)

Mine: Summer and Autumn

Pupa: outside the mine

Notes:Formerly Messa nana. The mine starts at the tip of a vein at the leaf edge and a plug of frass is left at the start of the mine, which may be partly disturbed by the feeding larva (as shown).

Data: 25.vi.2005, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds