Food Plant: Luzula sylvatica (Great wood-rush)

Mine: September - June

Notes: The mine formed is long, inflated and puckers the leaf surface. The larva often swaps leaves.Occurs in South West England, from Monmouthshire in Wales and the East of Scotland. Mines found on Luzula pilosa will probably be E.tengstromi. A mine on Luzula sylvatica , showing how the mine begins as thin, straight, brownish gallery going up the leaf between the veins, before developing into a broader, puckered blotch, and in this case going back down the leaf. Larvae make several such blotches, usually in the tips of leaves.

Data: Mine collected 27.xii.2022, Clatworthy Reservoir, South Somerset, VC5

Image:© Will Langdon