A common species in Belgium.

The larva makes a long, tortuous translucent lower epidermal mine with a central brownish frass-line usually on Salix alba, and later it mines into the petiole and twig and completing the mine into a second leaf, where it creates another similar epidermal mine. Pupation in a cocoon under a silk membrane, usually at the margin of the leaf, which curls over to conceal it.

The adults fly in two generations in July and again from late August till next April, hibernating in thatch or hayricks.