Food Plant: Rhododendron spp.

Egg: Lower surface of the leaf

Mine: May-June, August-September

Pupa: In a cocoon under a white membrane; underside of leaf.

Notes: Initially a gallery leading to a blotch . Later rolls the tips of leaves down to form a cone (top leaf); usually two successive cones.

Data: 30.iv.2019, Bodnant Gardens, Denbighshire, VC50 Andy & Melissa Banthorpe

Image:© Melissa Banthorpe