Food Plant: Artemesia vulgaris (Mugwort)

Egg: Lower surface of leaf

Mine: July, August - September

Pupa: In a cocoon, spun in detritus

Notes: Initially the mine is a long gallery underneath the leaf. As the larva feeds and spins internally the mine becomes inflated. The upper epidermis becomes mottled in appearance, turning yellow and later, purple

Data: 24.vi.2003, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds