Food Plant: Alnus glutinosa (Alder), Alnus cordata (Italian Alder)

Egg: Lower surface of leaf

Mine: July - August

Pupa: Under a turned over leaf edge

Notes: Initially in short gallery becoming a brownish blotch near the leaf margin (as shown). Later in two or three Parornix-like folds at the edge of the leaf.

Data: 17.ix.2003,Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds