Food Plant: Betula (Birch), Carpinus (Hornbeam), Corylus (Hazel), Malus (Apple) and other deciduous trees.

Mine: May-June

Notes: A distinctive blotch mine is produced, then the larva falls to the ground inside a case made from the cut-out. The photo above shows the case, containing the larva, skeletonozing the leaf. They feed on leaf litter at the base of the tree/shrub.

Data: 20.v.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds