Food Plant: Dactylis glomerata (Cocks-foot grass), Brachypodium sylvaticum (False Brome)

Egg: laid on the leaf

Mine: October-May

Notes: Initially the autumn mine is long and semi-transparent. After winter it prefers leaves laying on the ground and makes Phyllonorvcter like blister mines with frass packed into the tip of the mine, which then shrivels and twists. Records are predominantly from southern counties.

National Status: pRDB3

Bradley No: 619

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