Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Egg: Upper side of leaf

Mine: July, September - October

Notes: A short contorted gallery, usually near midrib. Two mines are seen in the centre, either side of the mirib. The larva pupates in a whitish cocoon - spun on a leaf in Summer and on the trunk in autumn.

Data: 14.ix.2003, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds