Food Plant: Ballota nigra (Black Horehound), Hedge woundwort (Stachys sylvatica), Lamb's ear (Stachys lanata), Betony (Stachys officinalis), White Horehound (Marrubium vulgare), Balearic Island sage (Phlomis italica)

Mine: September to May

Notes:  The cases are broad and flat - being very hairy from the texture of the leaf. The cases shown are on Lamb's ear and the feeding signs can be seen through the upper leaf surface.

Data: 12.v.2004, Cheltenham, E.Gloucs, VC33

Image:© Robert Homan