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 Hogweed and several larvae may be seen in a mine (three are seen at the right of the mine).

Data: 27.ix.2016, Hessle, South-east Yorkshire, VC61

Image:© Barry Warrington