Food Plant: Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) and occasionally Prunus japonica (dwarf flowering cherry), Prunus domestica ssp. institia (Damson), Prunus cerasifera, Malus domestica (Apple) spp. Crategus monogyna (Hawthorn)

Mine: July-October

Notes: Forms blotch mines from an initial gallery. Rediscovered in the UK after over 100 years and now spreading into Eastern and Central England.

National Status: pRDB1

Bradley No: 262

Data: viii.2003, Ijzevoorde, Gelderland, The Netherlands, Jaap Zwier, Willem Ellis

Image:© Willem Ellis

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