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

Mine: June-August, September-May

Pupa: On the ground in detritus

Notes: A broad, highly-contorted gallery with scattered greenish or blackish frass. The gallery sometimes fuses to form a false blotch. The larva is white or greenish white in the early stages; having crimson spots in the final instar (as shown)

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

Image:© Ben Smart