Food Plant: Rubus fruticosus (Bramble)   

Egg: Upper surface of the leaf

Mine: October - April

Notes: A gallery filled with frass, leading to blotch. The mined area is purple-stained. A coastal species. Mine on Rubus fruticosus agg., showing egg laid on vein on upperside of leaf.

Data: 08.x.2023, Mill Hill, West Sussex, VC13

Image:© Will Langdon