Food Plant: Quercus spp. (Oak)

Egg: laid on a leaf

Mine: September - June

Notes: Initially feeds underside of the leaf making tiny holes in groups. The larva feeds into November then overwinters attached to the angle of a twig. In the spring and constructs a case as shown with a large 'pallium'of scales - the autumnal ones being blackish. A local species preferring the sunny edges of woods and rides.

Synonomy: Coleophora palliatella

Data: 01.xi.2007, Bartley Heath, Hants, VC12, Paul Boswell, Rob Edmunds

Image:© Rob Edmunds