Food Plant: Helianthemum spp. (Rock-rose) - Common rock-rose (H.nummularium), hoary rock-rose (H.canum), white rock-rose (H.apenninum).

Egg: on a leaf

Mine: June-July; October-April

Notes: The initial mine is a gallery, which then widens to a blotch, filling the leaf. Pupation is in a cocoon in the leaf litter.The larva has just vacated the left leaf.

National Status: Local

Bradley No: 884

Data: 21.vii.2017, Cranwich, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds