Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Egg: Upper side of leaf

Mine: July, September - October

Notes: A short contorted gallery, usually near midrib- there are several mines in the photo above. The larva pupates in a whitish cocoon - spun on a leaf in Summer and on the trunk in autumn.

Data: 10.x.2005, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds