Gracillaria syringella

Lilac moth ( Gracillaria syring ella )

The lilac moth ( Gracillaria syring ella ) is a very common type of the family of leaf miners ( Gracillariidae ). It can reach a wingspan of about 12 millimeters and has striking zimtrote forewing. It is found especially in May, when she flies around the food plant of their caterpillars at dusk. These are among others to lilac, privet and ash. Eggs are laid on the underside of leaves along the leaf veins.

The caterpillars penetrate through the Eiunterseite in the sheet and begin jointly trying to nate the sheet. At night the caterpillars change the leaves and new leaves begin to go on together, with the bottom rolled inward. In these bags the larvae eat together then. Pupation takes place partly in the leaf rollers, partly on the ground. The caterpillars form a white cocoon.

In a year occur two to three generations of animals Hibernation takes place as a doll. Especially during mass occurrence of the animals may be significant as pests.