Lep:Nepticulidae
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4.096 Ectoedemia arcuatella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
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contorted initail gallery

 

Food Plant: Fragaria (Strawberry), Potentilla sterilis (Barren Strawberry).

Egg: Lower surface of the leaf

Mine: August - October

Notes: A contorted gallery with brown coiled frass which later becomes a blotch with dispersed frass (as shown). Larva yellowish-white with green gut-line. Mine illustrated on Wild Strawberry (F.vesca)

Data: 11.ix.2021, Warburg, Oxfordshire, VC23

Image:© Will Langdon

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