Food Plant: Geum (Avens/Herb Bennet)

Mine: Bivoltine: summer & early autumn.

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: A full depth blotch. Frass black and plentiful. Local. (Formerly called Metallus gei). The larva has a pale brown head and green/yellow body. There are some plates on the ventral thoracic segments.

Data: 19.vi.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds