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. Larva yellow, with green gut-line and dark brown head. Early instars have black ventral plates, which are not present in the final instar (as shown).

Data: 05.xi.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds