Food Plant: Hypericum spp. (St John's Wort)

Egg: Underside of a leaf.

Mine: June; September-October

Pupa: In a folded leaf edge or on leaf-litter.

Notes: The initial mine is in the form of a very twisted gallery. It later contorts the leaf (as shown) and finally the leaf forms into a contorted cone. Formerly Eucalybites auroguttella

Data: 15.xi.2014, Ruberries Wood, Frogham, East Kent, VC15

Image:© David Shenton