Recording Method

Most often recorded as a leaf mine. Adults rarely seen.

Life cycle

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

Larval foodplants

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

History

The first for D&G was found at an unknown site in Dumfriesshire by a person unknown prior to 1996 (BRC/MOGBI data). The first confirmed records a leaf mine at Glencaple (VC72) on 25 July 2023.