Recording method

Comes to light.  Overwinters in evergreens such as Yew.  Absence of an egg at the start of the mine helps distinguish it from a Nepticulid, as do the deep divisions between the segments of the L. clerkella larva.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-November.  A long, winding gallery through a leaf.

Larval foodplants

A wide range of mostly rosaceous trees or shrubs such as Apple species, Sorbus species (eg Rowan, Whitebeams), Prunus species (plums, cherries, Blackthorn) and hawthorn species; also Birches.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway were found at unknown sites in Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire by persons unknown prior to 1985 (BRC/MOGBI data), with the Wigtownshire first being found at Corsemalzie House Hotel, near Mochrum, on 27th June 1988 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton.