Bucculatricidae

14.005 Highland Tuft Bucculatrix humilliella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

pRDB2

Similar species:

Forewing: 4 to 4.5mm

Habitats: Mountain slopes, glens, dry pasture, verges and embankments.

Habits: It overwinters as an adult.

Foodplant: The larva at first mines a leaflet of Yarrow or Tansy, leaving a central line of black frass. It later feeds externally on the surface, leaving the lower layer which noticeably withers. It pupates in a white corrugated cocoon on the foodplant or adjacent vegetation.