Choreutis nemorana

Another adventive micro species which is spreading out of London has now reached our region.  Choreutis nemorana was first discovered in Hyde Park in 2014 and feeds on fig Ficus carica.  At the beginning of October Peter Ogden in Bergher's Hill near Wooburn, Bucks found an adult in his greenhouse where he has quite a large fig, on which there are indeed feeding signs.  The moth has summer and autumn broods and those which emerge in the autumn over-winter as adults.  The larvae feed on the leaf within a silk spinning and then create a leaf-edge fold inside which they pupate.  If you have a fig in your garden it is time to check the leaves!   

Choreutis nemorana, Bergher's Hill 5th Oct (Peter Ogden)