| Status
.....First recorded in the UK from the gardens of
Buckingham Palace in 2014 (Freed
2014) and has since spread to other counties and is on the move
north. It reached Suffolk in 2019 and Norfolk in 2018, but there are
currently (September 2020) no records for neighbouring Derbyshire,
Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. The larva produces distinctive, large
mines on a number of long-leaved Willow species. The mine in the
photographs measured 11mm x 8mm. There are currently records from
Colwick CP in September 2020 and Newark in September 2023. |
