hazel
& hornbeam (Corylus & Carpinus)
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| Eriocraniidae (May) | |
| A blotch mine eating out all the parenchyma, frass
black in long inter-twining threads, late April to early June [4-6] |
Eriocrania chrysolepidella 7 |
| Nepticulidae | |
| Mine
highly contorted, staining leaf brown, leading to large blotch
with early mine in Corner [7-9] |
Ectoedemia minimella 35 |
| Early mine with greenish frass later irregular and wider than larvae. Egg always laid on the underside in a vein axil with the larva feeding dorsum upwards [6-7+9-10] | Stigmella floslactella 75 |
| Early mine with black linear frass tending to follow veins width of larvae. Egg laid on or near a vein, but not in the axil with the larva feeding ventral side up [6-7+9-11] | Stigmella microtheriella 111 |
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