Food Plant: Chenopodium (Goosefoot), Atriplex (Orache).

Mine: June-August, September-May

Pupa: On the ground in detritus

Notes: A broad, highly-contorted gallery with scattered greenish or blackish frass. The gallery sometimes fuses to form a false blotch. The larva is shown entering the leaf.

Data: 29.ix.2019, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds