Food Plant: Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut), Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), Norway maple (Acer platanoides).

Mine: Multivolitine, with up to three generations a year. May - October

Notes: First discovered in Macedonia in 1985, it has rapidly spread across Europe and is gaining a rapid foothold in the UK, since its discovery in 2002. There can be many mines on a leaf and the miner can cause serious defoliation.

Data: 11.ix.2003, Weybridge, Surrey, VC17. Andy and Isobel Mitchell

Image:© Andy Mitchell