Lep:Nepticulidae
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4.093 Ectoedemia agrimoniae (Frey, 1858)
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mines with cocoons

 

Food Plant: Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony)

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: August - November

Notes: The initial gallery is twisted and can follow the leaf edge. It contains broken linear frass. it then widens to form a blotch or gallery, with scattered frass. It pupates in the mine. Mines on Agrimonia sp. This species pupated in the mine and cocoons are visible in the mines in the top right and top left.

Data: 07.x.2023, Chantry Hill, West Sussex, VC13

Image:© Will Langdon

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