Food Plant: Quercus (Oak), Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam)
Egg: Upper side of leaf
Mine: July, September - October
Notes: A short contorted gallery, usually near midrib- there are several mines in the photo above. The larva pupates in a whitish cocoon - spun on a leaf in Summer and on the trunk in autumn.
National Status: Common
Bradley No: 274
Data: 18.vii.2015, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28
Image:© Rob Edmunds
Recording category: A
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