Food Plant: Limonium vulgare (Common sea-lavender)

Mine: September - May

Notes: The larva eats the seeds inside a flower and then uses this as a case. The feeding signs are shown where the larva has punctured the floret. The larva over winters in the stem of the plant. Formerly Gonioderma limoniella.

Data: 07.x.2020, River Deben saltmarsh, East Suffolk, VC25

Image:© Patrick Cook