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 (as shown), which are not present in the final instar.

Data: 24.xi.2002, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds