About Ectoedemia rubifoliella (Clemens, 1860) Wilkinson et al., 1979
Ectoedemia rubifoliella is a moth species that belongs to the Nepticulidae family. It is native to southeastern Canada, as well as the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. This moth has a wingspan of approximately 4 millimeters. The larvae of this species feed by creating mines inside the leaves of blackberry bushes. Their leaf mining activity starts as a very narrow linear mine that follows a leaf vein or the leaf margin closely, before expanding into an irregular blotch. Leaf mines that contain Ectoedemia rubifoliella larvae can be collected in July and September. The larvae themselves are pale green, and their cocoons are dark brown.
