Food Plant: Ligustrum (Privet), Fraxinus (Ash) Jasminum (Jasmine) or Syringa (Lilac)

Egg: Next to midrib, often in a row of up to 8 together.

Mine: June, August-September.

Pupa: In a cocoon, underside of leaf or on leaf-litter.

Notes: Larvae usually gregarious. Early mine an epidermal gallery leading to a contorted blotch with black frass (as shown on Privet). Subsequently two successive cones formed by folding the tip of a leaf downwards. Formerly Caloptilia syringella

Natiional Status: Common

Bradley No: 293

Data: 2002, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image: © Rob Edmunds