Food Plant: Rhamnus (Buckthorn), Frangula (Alder Buckthorn).

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: August - September

Notes: The mine starts as a tight spiral, staining leaf-tissue purple. A larva is shown and the white structures are the moulting cocoons.

Data: 17.ixi.2006, Villers-la-Ville, Belgium

Image:© Paul Fontaine