Food Plant: Corylus avellana (Hazel) and Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam)     

Mine: April - May

Notes: A very local species, making a typical blotch mine in the leaf. Mine shown (with larva) on Hornbeam. Formerly Eriocrania chrysolepidella

National Status: Local

Bradley No: 7

Data: 28.iv.2009, Hadleigh, Suffolk, VC25

Image:© Tony Prichard