leaf-mine on clover (Trifolium), Studland, Dorset - 7.10.19. Photo taken 22.4.20 after overwintering and switching to fresh clover leaf. Pupated 30.4.20
emerged 11.7.15 in a pot covered with stocking material and containing dried leaves collected in autumn 2013. No holes in the pot, which was kept in the shed from spring 2014.
Found in Crianlarich, Perthshire, about six miles north-east of the head of Loch Lomond. A pyralid with 10.5mm forewing length. - 25.7.15. ID confirmed by Roy Leverton. A new VC record for Mid-Perthshire..jpg
larva found mining shoot of juniper - Hawes water, Lancs - 10.4.16. Holes seem to be to allow frass to escape, maybe exit hole for moth too. The shoot beyond this has withered
larval case attached to sea-milkwort (Glaux maritima). Surrounded by stems of the foodplant salt-marsh rush (Juncus gerardii) - Fluke Hall, Pilling, Lancs - 28.4.19