Food Plant: Salicornia (Glasswort)

Mine: September to October.

Notes: Larva feeds internally on seeds and fleshy spikes. A case is formed from the tip of a spike, and feeding continues for a short time on other spikes. The larva is infrequently seen, but the image here shows it establishing a feeding position

National Status: Nationally scarce B

Bradley No: 588

Data: 26.ix.2004, Hayling Island, Hants, VC11

Image:© Rob Edmunds