Food Plant: Trifolium pratense (Red Clover), Melilotus altissima (Ribbed Melilot), Medicago (Medick)

Mine: Bivoltine: summer & early autumn

Pupa: Outside the mine. The puparium is shown in dorsal view.

Notes: A short, broad gallery leading to a conspicuous, roundish white blotch in the centre of the leaf. The blotch is upper surface with full depth spots - comprising of large clumps of frass (as shown, with larva in mine). Common and widely distributed. England, Scotland, Ireland.

Data: 27.v.2018, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds