Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Egg: Upper surface of leaf

Mine: May - June

Pupa: In silken cocoon amongst detritus (as shown); occasionally inside mine.

Notes: A silvery sinuous gallery on the upper side, leading to a large, papery blotch. Sometimes several galleries lead to the same blotch.

Data: 09.vi.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds