Food Plant: Limonium vulgare (Common sea-lavender)

Mine: September - May

Notes: The larva eats the seeds inside a flower and then uses this as a case. The larva over winters in the stem of the plant. The photo shows a case on the flower of sea-lavender. Formerly Gonioderma limoniella.

Data: 06.ix.2019, The Warren, Spurn Point, South-east Yorkshire, VC61

Image:© Will Langdon