Food Plant: Rumex crispus (Curly Dock) (other Rumex species too)

Mine: April-June

Notes: Lives internally in the rootstock, stem and leaf petioles. Pupation is within the rootstock. A moth found predominantly in the South. Larval feeding signs on Rumex hydrolapathum, with large amounts of frass extruded from a hole in the axil by a larva feeding inside the stem.

Bradley No: 737

National Status: Nationally Scarce B

Gelechiid Recording Scheme: link

Data: 05.vi.2023, Dungeness, Kent, VC15

Image:© Will Langdon