Bucculatricidae

14.008 Alder Tuft Bucculatrix cidarella Zeller, 1839

Local

Similar species:

Forewing: 4 to 4.5mm

Habitats: Fens, marshes, Scottish mosses and peat bogs and river-banks.

Habits: The moth rests on tree trunks during the day.

Foodplant: The larva forms a long narrow gallery mine on Alder or Bog Myrtle. The mine is filled with black frass and often ends with a sharp right-angled turn. The larva later eats out windows from the underside of the leaf. It pupates in a pale yellow-brown, corrugated cocoon attached to a leaf-stalk or debris.