Food Plant: Rubus fructicosus (Bramble)

Mine: Summer and autumn

Notes: A local and uncommon miner. It forms a large blotch mine. The larva has a large prothoracic plate, two further thoracic spots and one spot on the first abdominal segment (this distinguishes it from M.albipes - which only has three spots). The mine shown is on R.fructicosus

Data: 25.vi.2013, de Rammelaars, Ham, (Limburg)

Image:© Carina Van Steenwinkel