Nepticulidae

04.045 Golden Dot Stigmella aurella (Fabricius, 1775)

Common

Similar species: The two photographs above are the same moth with the light 90 degrees different in the second picture.

Forewing: 2 to 3mm

Habitats: Wherever Brambles or its other foodplants are present.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a long gallery in a Bramble leaf. The frass is dispersed or occasionally linear. The later generation overwinters half-fed in a mine. The larva also mines Raspberry, Dewberry, Water Avens, Wood Avens, Wild Strawberry and Common Agrimony, but on these species it does not overwinter in the mine. It pupates in a cocoon in the leaf litter.