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 cases and cut-outs on Tilia cordata (the first European record on this plant). Moth reared by Ben Smart.

Data: 09.vi.2006, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds