Food Plant: Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp Agrimony), Galeopsis tetrahit (Common Hemp-nettle), Solidago virgaurea (Golden-rod). Rarely on Aster , Helianthus (Sunflower), Lapsana (Nipplewort).
Mine: Bivoltine: late spring & summer. Posterior spiracles of larva (puparium) each with 3 bulbs.
Pupa: Outside the mine
Notes: Long upper surface gallery starting with a spiral of 6 to 8 turns (as shown). Frass in conspicuous narrow linear lines. Local: Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire. Mine shown on Hemp Agrimony.
Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 2
Data: 03.vii.2007, Fleet, Hants, VC12
Image:© Rob Edmunds
References:
Buckton S (2023) - Liriomyza eupatorii(Kaltenbach)(Diptera:Agromyzidae)
new to Scotland, Dipterists Digest 30 (1), 67
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