Food Plant: Crataegus (Hawthorn), Malus (Apple), Pyrus (Pear), Sorbus (Whitebeam/Rowan).

Egg: Upper surface of leaf

Mine: July -August

Notes: A short contorted gallery, near midrib or side-vein (as shown). Mine shown on hawthorn. When the larva leaves the mine it grazes the leaf surface (as shown). It tends to graze the upper leaf surface.

Data: 12.vii.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds