Nepticulidae

04.002 Grey Birch Dot Stigmella lapponica (Wocke, 1862)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 2.5 to 3.5mm

Habitats: Wherever birch is present.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a slender gallery mine in a birch leaf that hardly widens and mostly follows a vein over a long distance. It will cross thick veins and even the midrib. The early part of the mine is full of scattered green frass. It pupates in a cocoon in the soil.