Food Plant: Aquilegia spp., Thalictrum (Meadow-Rue) spp.

Mine: Bivoltine: summer & autumn.

Notes: A relatively broad, short upper surface gallery (as shown). Frass in conspicuous black stripes. Common and widespread throughout British Isles. Mine shown on Aquilegia.

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

Image:© Rob Edmunds

Recording Grade: 1

References:
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