Gelechiidae

35.133 Barred Groundling Caryocolum blandella (Douglas, 1852)

Notable B

Similar species:

Forewing: 4.5 to 6.5mm

Habitats: Deciduous woodland rides, hedgerow verges and banked roadsides.

Habits: The moth rests on tree trunks. It is easily disturbed in the evening. It comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva mines a long narrow gallery along the midrib of a leaf of Greater Stitchwort. It later spins the terminal shoots, leaf buds or a flower-head and feeds on the leaves or later in the seed-capsules on the developing seeds, which eventually turn grey. It pupates in a pale cocoon in the leaf litter.