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, but is not shown in this lateral view.

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

Image:© Guy Meredith