Food Plant: Luzula sylvatica (Great wood-rush)

Mine: September - June

Notes: The mine formed is long, inflated and puckers the leaf surface. The larva often swaps leaves.Occurs in South West England, from Monmouthshire in Wales and the East of Scotland. Mines found on Luzula pilosa will probably be E.tengstromi. A young mine on Luzula sylvatica in the field in mid-winter. The mine has begun as a thin initial gallery going up to the leaf tip and turning around, and is now beginning to broaden as the larva begins the blotch-feeding phase.

Data: Mine collected 27.xii.2022, Clatworthy Reservoir, South Somerset, VC5

Image:© Will Langdon