Food Plant: Luzula sylvatica (Greater Wood-rush), L.pilosa (Hairy Wood-rush)

Egg: laid on underside of leaf

Mine: September-May

Notes: In the autumn a long thin gallery is formed, which may change direction. After hibernation an elongated blotch is formed, which may obliterate the early mine. The larva exits the mine to pupate. Found in shady deciduous woodland and gorges. A mine in the field on a leaf of Luzula pilosa, causing the leaf tip to die as is typical for this species. Adult reared.

National Status: Nationally Scarce A

Bradley No: 624

Data: 29.i.2023, Yearnor Wood, South Somerset, VC5

Image:© Will Langdon