Food Plant: Tilia cordata (Small-leaved lime)

Mine: Summer

Notes: A local and scarce miner found on the large sucker growth. It makes large blotch mines, which cause the leaves to curl over. The immature larva is a pale green colour, with light brown head pigmentation (as shown). The feet are pale.

Data: 12.vi.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12 ex mine 29.v.2006, Langenlois, Austria, Ewald Altenhofer

Image:© Rob Edmunds