Food Plant: Various Rosaceae /Betula (Birch).

Egg: Laid inside the cuticle of a leaf

Mine: May; July; September-October

Pupa: In a silken cocoon suspended from threads attached to food plant or other vegetation (as shown).

Notes: A long, whitish smoothly-curved upper-surface mine with broken black frass. The deeply segmented larva and lack of obvious egg-case at the start of the mine help distinguish this from Nepticulid mines. Cocoon shown is on Apple (Malus).

Data: 12.x.2007, Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland, VC55

Image:© David Manning