Lep:Nepticulidae
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4.093 Ectoedemia agrimoniae (Frey, 1858)
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egg at mine start

 

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. Mine on Agrimonia sp. with egg laid on the underside of the leaf at the start of the mine.

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

Image:© Will Langdon

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