Nepticulidae

04.100 Barred Birch Dot Ectoedemia minimella (Zetterstedt, 1839)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 2.5 to 3mm

Habitats: Where birches are present.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a short twisting gallery mine in a leaf of one of the birches or sometimes Hazel. This widens into a brown blotch which encompasses the original gallery. It is often between two lateral veins. It pupates in a cocoon in the soil.