Food Plant: Populus (Poplar); Salix (Willow) spp.

Egg: Underside of leaf, next to a vein

Mine: July-September

Pupa: Beneath a silken membrane on underside of leaf (shown at top of leaf)

Notes: Initially a lower epidermal gallery which leads to a blotch at the leaf-edge. Subsequently creates two or three cones by folding the edge or tip of a leaf downwards. Mine shown is on Populus tremula (Aspen)

Data: 18.x.2004, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds