Food Plant: Malus (Apple)

Egg: Upper side of leaf

Mine: July-August

Pupa: In folded leaf-edge amongst leaf-litter

Notes: Initially an upper side epidermal gallery leading to a blotch with scattered reddish-brown frass. Subsequently two or three successive folds at the edge of a leaf which are 'glued 'firmly down (as shown).

Data: 27.viii.2025, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds