Food Plant: Arrhenatherum elatius (False Oat Grass), Holcus mollis (Creping Soft-grass), Phleum bertoloniii (Smaller Cat's-tail), Schedonorus arundinaceus (Tall Rye Grass)

Egg: on a leaf

Mine: December-April

Notes: Makes a variable width broad flat transparent mine which may occupy the whole leaf. The sparse frass is greyish and scattered. The larva may mine both upwards and downwards in a leaf and readily changes leaves. A widespread species found in grasslands (a habitat is shown), heaths and bogs

National Status: Common

Bradley No: 608

Data: East Kent, VC15

Image:© David Shenton