Food Plant: Quercus cerris (Turkey Oak), Q.ilex (Evergreen Oak), Q.petraea (Sessile Oak), Q. robur (Pedunculate Oak), Q.canariensis (Algerian Oak)

Egg: Upper surface of leaf

Mine: May - June

Pupa: In silken cocoon amongst detritus; occasionally inside mine.

Notes: A silvery sinuous gallery on the upper side, leading to a large, papery blotch (as shown). Sometimes several galleries lead to the same blotch.

Data: 29.v.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds