14.01 BF274 – Bucculatricidae – Bucculatrix ulmella
Bucculatricidae – Bucculatrix ulmella – Oak Bent-wing
STATUS – Local in the county, wherever there are Oak trees.
ID POINTERS – A Leaf-miner – A tiny moth with an orange tufted head and forewing yellowish white, mottled greyish-brown, with raised blackish scale tufts. Pale buff cilia.
MINE -The mine is a short contorted gallery close to the midrib of a leaf, containing broken black frass
FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing May, June & August – Leaf-mine July, September & October
IMAGES – Kings Newton, Derbyshire – Will Soarn
