Green World

This evening, I finally found a leaf mine that - if I'm honest - I've wanted to see for some time but have never made the effort. In the event, I found several mines on a handful of Fat Hen plants growing just at the edge of a field entrance down the lane, less than 1km from home. This in itself probably shows that the moth might not wander too far - in 20 odd years of garden trapping, and trapping away from home, I've never had a sniff.

Anyway, here are a couple of leaves showing several mines of Chrysoesthia drurella ....

As you can just about see, leaves can hold several mines and most of the mines were tenanted. I've collected a few leaves so hopefully I can get a spanking adult to emerge for a snap.

Here's one stuffing itself inside it's green world ....

Prior to finding these, I nipped over to Burbage Common for an hour where I found quite a few other mines and bits to mull over.