Food Plant: Food Plant: Betula (Birch)

Mine: April - May

Notes: The largest and commonest of the Eriocraniidae. The mine starts at or near the leaf edge and then widens into a blotch. A developing mine is shown. (note the larva has lost the dark intial sclerotizations of the head and prothorax).

Data: 15.v.2008, Fleet, Hants, VC15

Image:© Rob Edmunds