Food Plant: Salix alba (White Willow), Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow), Salix purpurea (Purple Willow), Salix fragilis (Crack Willow). Salix triandra (Almond Leaved Willow), Salix pentandra (Bay Willow)

Egg: Lower surface of leaf

Mine: June, August -October

Pupa: Under a membrane on the margin of leaf

Notes: A tortuous lower epidermal mine with a central brownish frass-line. The larva then mines into the petiole and subsequently into a second leaf, normally opposite, where it creates another similar epidermal mine (as shown).

National Status: Local

Bradley No: 367

Data: 29.viii.2004, Melton, Suffolk, VC 25, Neil Sherman

Image:© Tony Prichard

Recording category: L

References:
Heath, J & Emmet, AM (1985) The Moths an Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2
Hering, M (1957) - Bestimmungstabellen der Blattminen von Europa
Langmaid JR, Palmer SM, Young MR (2018), A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland
Robbins, 1989, A Provisional Atlas of the Leaf Miners of Warwickshire