Food Plant: Rubus (Bramble), Geum, Fragaria, Agrimonia

Egg: Either leaf surface

Mine: May-June, July-August, October-March

Notes: A common leaf miner. A long gallery with dispersed frass. The larva is amber-yellow, head yellowish-brown. A particularly reddish mine on Rubus agg. in the field, recalling Stigmella auromarginella. An adult was reared and it was Stigmella aurella.

Data: 21.ix.2022, Dungeness, Kent, VC15

Image:© Will Langdon