Food Plant: Salix - smooth leaved varieties (Willow), S.fragilis, S.alba, S.viminalis, S.babylonica, S.purpurea, S.pentandra         

Egg: Either side of the leaf

Mine: June - July, September - October 

Notes: An early gallery filled with frass, later leaving clear margins, finally a blotch. Larva amber, head and faint ventral spots, brown. Mine on Salix babylonica. Mine on Salix fragilis

Data: 27.x.2003, Portsmouth, VC11, John Langmaid

Image:© Ian Thirlwell