Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Egg: Upper side of leaf

Mine: July, September - October

Notes: A short contorted gallery, usually near midrib. The larva pupates in a whitish cocoon - spun on a leaf in Summer and on the trunk in autumn. The cocoon above is on the leaf - the larva often are blown on silken threads to another plant and then form a cocoon (as above). The cocoon is on Cytisus (Broom) above.

Data: 11.iv.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds