Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)     

Egg: Lower surface of the leaf

Mine: October - November

Notes: A small, contorted gallery, in “green island” often many in one leaf. There are two mines in the leaf above, in the green islands(note also the mine of Bucculatrix ulmella - centre, above midrib). Larva yellow, with green gut-line and dark brown head. Early instars have black ventral plates, which are not present in the final instar.

Data: 02.xi.2007, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds