B&F: 0385

ABH: 48.001

Status:  Resident

Distribution/Abundance:  Common

Primary Habitat:  Everywhere

Wingspan:  11-15mm

Flight Period:  Bivoltine: May - July, August to October

Observations: An almost ubiquitous species, found wherever its foodplant, Nettle, exists. Adults fly by day and often seen in numbers in a distinctive "buzzing" flight. Larvae feed within a silk spinning on Nettle.

Confusion Species:  May sometimes be confused with Apple Leaf Skeletonizer Choreutis pariana

L.O.N.:  Abundant almost everywhere. May to October

First Record:  1905, Wallis