Food Plant: Acer platanoides (Norway Maple)

Mine: May

Notes: Forms blotch mines on the leaf tips of very young, tender leaves, usually saplings.The mine has a characteristically speckled appearance due to frass deposition. The larva is pale in colour. New to the UK, discovered in Kent.

Data: 13.v.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12 ex.mine 09.v.2006, Asperhofen, Austria, Ewald Altenhofer

Image:© Rob Edmunds