Lep:Gelechiidae
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35.073 Monochroa palustrellus (Douglas, 1850)
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habitat

 

Food Plant: Rumex crispus (Curly Dock) (possibly other Rumex species too)

Mine: April-June

Notes: Lives internally in the rootstock, stem and leaf petioles. Pupation is within the rootstock. A moth found predominantly in the South.Larval habitat with Rumex hydrolapathum.

Data: 05.vi.2023, Dungeness, Kent, VC15

Image:© Will Langdon

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