Food Plant: Centaurium erythraea (Common centaury)

Mine: July

Notes: A local miner. The mine starts as a gallery, but this is engulfed by the upper surface blotch that eventually forms. This mine is in a basal leaf - right on the ground amongst the grasses etc. The mine is usually in basal part of leaf. The food plant is on most old quarries and many post-industrial sites in the south-east. The larva pupates in the mine and the spiracles protrude through the upper epidermis.

Data: 15.vii.2024, Cranwich, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds