Food Plant: Genista anglica (Petty Whin)

Mine: September to October, feeding again from May to June.

Notes: Larva mines leaves. The silken case has mined leaves attached, forming alternate dorsal and ventral keels. A wet flush on lowland heathland with a number of small plants of Genista anglica where larvae were found.

Data: 02.vii.2021, Dorset, VC9

Image:© Will Langdon