Emmetia marginea mine - Recto - Flickr - Bennyboymothman

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Summary[edit] Description: Mines on Bramble I checked several of the Bramble bushes that I have let grow for the benefit of wildlife and every year I note quite a few white squiggles on nearly every leaf. This is of course the mines of the micro-moth Stigmella aurella that the larvae create when feeding from within the leaf itself. I also noticed a different shaped white mine for which I didn't initially recognise so I took a photo of it and got it confirmed as the larval workings of Emmetia marginea, a moth I have recorded in the garden twice in 2014. Both were added to the micro-moth list as larvae and increase the yearly list of micro moths to 15. Date: 3 May 2016, 18:34. Source: Emmetia marginea mine - Recto. Author: Ben Sale from UK.