Larvae are known to be blotch leafminers of apple (
Malus domestica)
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The larvae are also known to feed on quince, japonica, mountain ash and European white birch (
Betula pendula), an invasive in some states in USA and in parts of Canada. They mine the leaves of their host plant, depositing their eggs in the underside of a leaf. Around the oviposition site a cavity develops, that in the end often leaves a hole in the leaf. Then, the mine becomes a narrow, hardly widening, winding corridor, largely filled with a broad reddish-brown frass line. The corridor then widens into a wide, full depth blotch, often against the leaf margin. The larva may leave its mine and start a new one, sometimes on a different leaf.
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