Food Plant: Circaea lutetiana (Enchanter's Nightshade), Epilobium hirsutum (Great Willowherb), Epilobium montanum (Broad-leaved willowherb).
Mine: June - July
Pupa: Occasionally in a mined leaf or in a cocoon between the leaves or on the leaves (illustrated)
Notes: A narrow contorted gallery leading to a whitish blotch with scattered frass centrally. The early gallery can merge with the blotch and there are often several to a leaf.
Image:© Rob Edmunds
Data: 11.vi.2004, Fleet, Hants, VC12