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. The puparium is shown in dorsal, lateral and ventral view (top to bottom photo).

Recording Grade: 5

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

Image:© Rob Edmunds