Food Plant: Rubus, especially Rubus fruticosus (Bramble)

Egg: Upper surface of the leaf

Mine: July, September - March

Notes: A gallery leading to whitish blotch. The larvae from the autumn generation feed throughout the winter. Pupation occurs inside the mine. Mines in shaded places can be large. Fauna Europaea name: Coptotriche marginea

Data:26.x.2003, Etherow Country Park, Cheshire, VC 58

Image:© Shane Farrell