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). 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: 13.i.2021, Exeter, Devon, VC3

Image:© Jack Oughton