Length: 2.5-3mm;
Wing Length: 2.4-3.5mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	?	?	May - September (Earliest: 20.5)

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Meadows
Food: (Larva) (Oligophagous Stem Borer)	Cirsium	Jacobaea vulgaris
Food: (Adult)	Anthriscus sylvestris Nectar, Pollen
Possible Parasitoids:	Several Braconidae Larvae

Leaf and Stem Mines of British Flies: Melanagromyza aeneoventris
British Leafminers: Melanagromyza aeneoventris
Plant Parasites of Europe: Melanagromyza aeneoventris

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