Food Plant: Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort)

Egg: on the flower

Mine: August - June

Notes: The larva feeds on the seeds and makes a case from the empty seedhead (the case is the darker one on the rightof the photo). The presence of the larvae can be seen by the holes they leave in the seedheads they feed on.

Data: 05.ix.2021, Clanfield, Oxfordshire, VC23

Image:© Will Langdon