Food Plant: Fagus (Beech)

Egg: Generally on the underside of leaf

Mine: July; September

Pupa: In folded leaf-edge, often on a fallen leaf.

Notes: Early mine a blotch with upper epidermis turning brown to the bottom right in the photo). Then a fold at the leaf edge or tip of the leaf (as shown). Often 2 or three folds can be seen. The upper surface of the leaf is shown above.

Data: 01.x.2005, Fleet ,Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds