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

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 (as shown)

Data: 04.x.2007, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds