Food Plant: Populus tremula (Aspen)

Mine: early Summer (May-July)

Notes: An uncommon miner. Makes large reddish-brown mines, which can occupy the leaf. Frass is ejected from the mine by the larva.

The anal ring is pale in colour and has small denticulations (as shown above)

Data: 30.vi.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds