Food Plant: Brachypodium sylvaticum (False-brome), Dactylis glomerata (Cock's-foot), Holcus spp. (soft-grass)

Egg: near leaf tip

Mine: September-April

Notes: The larva mines downwards and forms an irregular mine with a silken tube in the centre, which is mixed with frass. The larvae are visible in the mines.

Data: 12.ix.2006, Stansted Forest, W.Sussex, VC13, John Langmaid and Ian Thirlwell

Image:© Ian Thirlwell