Food Plant: Lonicera etrusca (Etruscan Honeysuckle), L. xylosteum (Fly Honeysuckle), Symphoriocarpos albus (Snowberry), Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan Honeysuckle). In Europe it is mostly found on L.xylosteum

Mine: June - July; August

Notes: A dark green cryptic mine which does not appreciably widen. The frass pattern can appear as a chevron shape (as shown). The larva exits to pupate through the upper epidermis. First discovered in the UK in 2007. The mine above is on Snowberry.

Data: 08.x,2016, Willerby, South-east Yorkshire, VC61

Image:© Barry Warrington