Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Egg: Upper side of leaf

Mine: July, September - October

Notes: . A short contorted gallery, usually near midrib. The larva in the free feeding phase eats windows from the leaf under surface (as shown) and is a grey-green, with white lateral and dorsal spots. The larva pupates in a whitish cocoon - spun on a leaf in Summer and on the trunk in autumn

Data: 26.ix.2004, Hayling Island, Hants, VC12, John Langmaid

Image:© Rob Edmunds