Food Plant: Senecio erucifolius (Hoary Ragwort) and Senecio jacobaea (Ragwort)

Mine: Summer and Autumn

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: The initial mine is a corridor, which normally follows the leaf edge. It then expands to form a blotch (as shown). A local and scarce miner.

Data: 16.x.2017, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds