Food Plant: Campanula persicifolia (Peach-leaved Bellflower), C. trachelium (Nettle-leaved Bellflower), Jasione montana (Sheep's-bit), Phyteuma sp . (Campions), Crepis biennis (Rough Hawksbeard), Hypochaeris radicata (Cat's-ear), Lapsana communis ( Nipplewort), Sonchus sp. (Thistles)
Mine: Summer & Autumn
Notes: Forms an external stem mine with frass in two unconnected broken strips. Pupariation is at the end of the mine in a black puparium (as shown). Puparia may also have a striped appearance with alternating light brown and black banding. An uncommon, but possibly overlooked species.
Data: 28.viii.2023, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28
Image:© Rob Edmunds
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