Food Plant: Stellaria holostea (Greater Stitchwort). In Europe also recorded on Stellaria alsine = uliginosa (Bog Stitchwort) and Cerastium arvense (Field Mouse-ear).

Mine: December-April

Notes: Makes gallery-like mines initially, often alongside the midrib (as shown in top (top photo) and underside (bottom photo) of leaf. Later it feeds between spun terminal buds and also on the shoots. A local and widespread species, found in open woodland and along hedgerows.

Data: 14.i.2019, Catfield, Norfolk, VC27

Image:© Andreas Beaumont