Food Plant: Leucanthemum vulgare (Ox-eye Daisy), L.maximum (Max Chrysanthemum)
Egg: laid on the capitulum
Mine: Summer
Notes: The larvae feed within the capitulum burrowing into this (as shown). They may feed gregariously. They later pupate in the capitulum.
Data: 11.vii.2023, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28
Image:© Rob Edmunds
sponsored by Colin Plant Associates (UK) LLP/Consultant Entomologists
