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)

Egg: under the leaf cuticle

Mine: July-October

Notes: Forms blotch mines from an initial gallery (as shown0. Rediscovered in the UK after over 100 years. This is the first record for VC30.

Data: 04.vii.2020, Marston Vale, Bedfordshire, VC30, Melissa Banthorpe

Image:© Andy Banthorpe