Food Plant: Betula (Birch)

Mine: Summer and Autumn

Pupa: outside the mine

Notes: Formerly Messa nana. The mine starts at the tip of a vein at the leaf edge and a plug of frass which may be partly disturbed by the feeding larva (as shown). The larva is intially green and then turns a dark yellow colour towards maturity

Data: 25.vi.2005, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds