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 and finally the leaf forms into a contorted cone. The initial mine and cone are shown (top of leaf and underside of leaf - top;bottom photos). Formerly Eucalybites auroguttella

Data: 30.vii.2019, Llynclys Hill, Shropshire, VC40, Andy & Melissa Banthorpe

Image:© Melissa Banthorpe