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.

Data: 18.vii.2010, Holme Fen, Hunts, VC 31, Keith Palmer

Image:© Andy Banthorpe