Food Plant: Apium dulce (Celery), Heracleum (Hogweed), Angelica, Levisticum (Lovage), Pastinaca (wild Parsnip), Ammi, Smyrnium olusatrum (Alexanders), Petroselinum crispum (Parsley), Aquilegia vulgaris (Aquilegia)

Mine: Summer and early Autumn

Pupa: External to the mine

Notes: Can be a pest on celery. Mine is deep and leads to a blotch, which is usually coloured yellow or Brown. Mine illustrated is on Aquilegia vulgaris (Aquilegia) and is the first record on this host. The initial gallery is bleached out.

Data: 16.v.2022, Hessle, South-east Yorkshire, VC61

Image:© Barry Warrington