Food Plant: Rhododendron spp .
Egg: Lower surface of the leaf
Mine: May-June, August-September
Pupa: In a cocoon under a white membrane; underside of leaf.
Notes: Initially a gallery leading to a blotch (on left). Later rolls the tips of leaves down to form a cone (on right); usually two successive cones. Mine shown on a garden Azalea variant.
Bradley No: 285
Status: Local
Data: 19.ix.2006, Fleet, Hants,VC12
Image:© Rob Edmunds
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