21.008 Pear Leaf Blister Moth Leucoptera malifoliella

21.008 (BF260)

Pear Leaf Blister Moth

Leucoptera malifoliella

Resident. Rare.

Life cycle

Mines: July-October, a brown blotch with the frass forming darker spirals. Adults June-July.

Apple species, Hawthorn species, Pear, Rowan and some other rosaceous trees

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at an unknown site in Dumfriesshire by a person unknown prior to 1996 (BRC/MOGBI data).

1 record(s) from 1 hectad(s) in D&G

	VC74	VC73	VC72
Last recorded			1961

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