Food Plant: Rumex hydrolapathum (Water Dock), R.crispus (Curled Dock)

Egg: on the flower

Mine: August - June

Notes: Feeds on the seeds and then later moves to the stem to pupate, where it fixes itself (as shown). The case is 7-8mm long, being narrow, tubular and trivalved. Found in the Norfolk Broads, the coastal marshes of Suffolk and also in Co.Durham

Data: 29.i.2011, East Suffolk, VC25

Image:© Tony Prichard