Food Plant: Stellaria holostea (Greater Stitchwort) , Cerastium spp . (Chickweed), Silene maritima (Sea Campion), S.dioica (Red Campion)

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

Notes:  Larva mines leaves, making greenish-white blotches (this enables a distinction with Col.solitariella which makes whitish blotches). The final case is tubular, 8mm long, with a dorsal keel which forks and continues as two ridges to the anal end of the case. The forked dorsal keel is developing.

Data: 16.i.2019, Upleadon, Gloucestershire, VC34 from the case collected 07.i.2019

Image:© Guy Meredith