Food Plant: Viscum album (Mistletoe)

Mine: September - May

Notes: The larva overwinters in a narrow crescent shaped mine on the the lower leaf surface (as shown) and then forms a large blotch mine next spring. A rare miner, being found in old apple orchardsand in hedgerows in the West of England and South Wales

Data: 16.i.2005, Gloucestershire, VC33

Image:© Robert Homan