Food Plant: Odontites spp., (Bartsia), Rhinanthus spp., (Yellow Rattle) Elsewhere: Euphrasia spp., (Eyebright), Melampyrum spp., (Cow Wheat)

Egg: laid in an upper leaf

Mine: Summer

Notes: A short mine may intially be formed in the leaf but the larva primarily feeds in the stem, which is where it pupariates. There may be several puparia in a stem (as shown in Yellow Rattle).

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5

Data: 17.viii.2023, Methwold Warren, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds