Food Plant: Rubus (Bramble), Geum, Fragaria, Agrimonia

Egg: Either leaf surface

Mine: May-June, July-August, October-March

Notes: A common leaf miner. A long gallery with dispersed frass. The larva is amber-yellow, head yellowish-brown. The larvae pupated and emerged as adults 21.vi.2005. The cocoon can vary in colour from pale green to light brown (as above)

Data: 20.vi.2005, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds