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. Mines shown on Tree Spinach (Chenopodium giganteum)

Data: 04.ix.2020, Skillington, South Lincs, VC53

Image:© Rob Edmunds