Food Plant: Rumex (Dock) , Lysimachia vulgaris (Loosestrife), Persicaria hydropiper (Water-pepper) P.maculosa (Redshank), Fallopia convolvulus (Black Bindweed)

Egg: Usually lower surface

Mine: May-July;August-September

Pupa: In the final leaf roll made by the larva

Notes: The inital mine leads to a Phyllonorycter blotch on the undersuface of the leaf. The larva (as shown in the tissue feeding phase) then rolls the edge of the leaf, making two or more rolls. Specimen from Rumex acetosa (Sorrel).

Data: 29.ix.2020 ex mine 27.ix.2020, Carn Gloose, Cornwall, VC1, Stella Beavan & Bob Heckford

Image:© Stella Beavan & Bob Heckford