Food Plant: Abies spp. (Fir)

Mine: Autumn-April

Notes: Mines the needle tips and turns them white. Does not spin the leaves together. The larva leaves a mine through a hole made in the leaf and may mine other leaves. It spins a white cocoon on the leaf underside to pupate (as shown). Present throughout Europe and Scandinavia.

Data: 13.iii.2014, Dessel, (Antwerpen), Belgium

Image:© Carina van Steenwinkel