Food Plant: a wide variety of grasses -Anisantha sterilis (Barren Brome), Avenula pratensis (Meadow Oat-grass), Brachypodium sylvaticum (False Browm), Dactylis spp. (Cock's-foot),Deschampsia cespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass), Festuca ovina (Sheep's Fescue), F.rubra (Red Fescue), Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog), H.mollis (Creeping Soft-grass),, Phalaris arundinacea (Reed Canary-grass), Schedonorus arundinaceus (Tall Fescue), mine illustrated is on Dactylis glomerata (Cock's-foot grass)

Egg: near the tip of the leaf

Mine: autumn - May

Notes: It makes a small narrow mine in the autumn and overwinters. In the spring it changes leaves and mines tip downwards. The mine fills the leaf width (as shown). The frass is packed in the top of the mine (as shown). Imago reared to confirm identity.

National Status: Common

Bradley No: 610

Data: 09.v.2006, Chorlton, Lancashire, VC59

Image:© Ben Smart