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 an orange blotch with scattered reddish-brown frass (as shown). Subsequently two or three successive folds at the edge of a leaf.

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

Image:© Rob Edmunds