Lep:Nepticulidae
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24a Ectoedemia hannoverella (Glitz, 1872)
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forms green islands

Food Plant: Populus x canadensis (Italian Poplar) (and P.nigra - Black Poplar in Europe)   

Egg: on the leaf petiole

Mine: September - November

Notes: The initial mine is in the leaf petiole and later the mines form green islands in the leaf.

Data: 7.xi.2003, Ipswich, Suffolk, VC25, Neil Sherman

Image:© Rob Edmunds

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