Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae: September-May.  Mines a needle, moving to a new needle via a silken tube.  It retreats along this tube to deposit frass in the previously mined leaf, a habit that characterises this species.  Adults: June-August.

Larval foodplants

Norway Spruce and Sitka Spruce.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was trapped at Dormont Lake, Dalton, Dumfriesshire, on 3rd July 2014 and confirmed by K. P. Bland.