Food Plant: Quercus (Oak), occasionally Castanea (Sweet Chestnut)

Egg: Upper surface of the leaf

Mine: October - November

Notes: A gallery leads to blotch with slit in lower epidermis. Larva white, head and pronotal plate blackish-brown (as shown, top mine). The early instars do not have ventral spots (unlike E.albifasciella as shown, bottom mine).

Data: 21.x.2019, All Stretton, Shropshire, VC40

Image:© Mike Shurmer