4.015 BF92 – Nepticulidae – Nepticulinae – Stigmella anomalella

Nepticulidae – Nepticulinae – Stigmella anomalella – Rose Leaf-miner

Status – National Status – Common – Derbyshire status unknown.

ID  Pointers – A Leaf-miner – The gallery is filled with a greenish-brown frass. A clear corridor with the egg on the underside of the leaf near a vein. The mine is a long sinuous gallery crossing and turning back on itself. The mine in the photograph is on Rosa (Rose)

Mine – July – October

Image – Dave Evans – September 11th 2021 – Wyver Lane, Belper.

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