Food Plant: Rhododendron spp.

Egg: Lower surface of the leaf

Mine: May-June, August-September

Pupa: In a cocoon under a white membrane; underside of leaf.

Notes: Initially a gallery leading to a blotch. Later rolls the tips of leaves down to form a cone (on left); usually two successive cones. Mine shown on a garden Azalea variant.

Data: 19.ix.2006, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds