Food Plant: Rumex (Dock) , Lysimachia vulgaris (Loosestrife), Persicaria hydropiper (Water-pepper) P.maculosa (Redshank), Fallopia convolvulus (Black Bindweed)

Egg: Usually lower surface

Mine: July - September

Pupa: In the final leaf roll made by the larva

Notes: The inital mine leads to Phyllonorycter blotch on the undersuface of the leaf. The larva then rolls the edge of the leaf, making two or more rolls. The initial mines and leaf rolls are shown.

Data: 21.ix.2014,Bidston Hill, Cheshire, VC58

Image:© Steve Hind