Food Plant: Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Cowberry)

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: August - April

Notes: Has a two year life cycle and ultimately forms a case of three pieces of mined leaf (stacked end to end - as in Col.lusciniaepenella). Found in Northern Scotland. The first case is shown.

Data: 05.v.2019, Muir of Dinnet, South Aberdeenshire, VC 92

Image:© Patrick Cook