Food Plant: Chenopodium (Goosefoot), Atriplex (Orache).

Mine: July - August, September

Pupa: On the ground in detritus

Notes: A broad, highly-contorted gallery with scattered greenish or blackish frass (as shown). The gallery sometimes fuses to form a false blotch.

Data: 22.viii.2006, Chorlton, Manchester VC59

Image:© Ben Smart