Food Plant: Rosaceous trees especially Crataegus (Hawthorn), Malus (Apple).

Egg: Lower surface of the leaf

Mine: August - October (the larvae vacate the mine in October/early November and are said to overwinter (Emmet, 1988))

Notes: A gallery usually along leaf-edge, frass brownish, leading to a blotch. Larva whitish, head and ventral spots dark (this distinguishes it from S.hybnerella, which has a pale head). Langdon & Hammond (2024) discovered Sorbus aucuparia (Rowan) and Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) as additional hosts for this species.

National Status: Common

Bradley No: 29

Data: 18.ix.2005, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds

References:
Langdon WBV & Hammond JE (2024) - Ectoedemia atricollis (Stainton, 1857) (Lep.:Nepticulidae) mining Blackthorn Prunus spinosa L. and Rowan Sorbus aucuparia L., Entomologist's Rec. J.Var. 136(3) p122-125