An oval, shiny egg shell, with longitudinal ribbing.

The larva has a characteristic wine or brown-red color

The mine starts as a narrow corridor filled with black frass that strictly follows the leaf edge. Eventually each corridor widens into a whitish or beige blotch, which partially or completely 'engulfs' the initial corridor. Inhabited mines are found from July to August, in some cases into October.

Mature caterpillars leave the mine at the end of July and make a strongly camouflaged cocoon with gnawings and pieces of bark against a twig of the food plant, after which the imagos emerged in May of the following year.
The adults come to light and can probably be knocked out of the food plant around May–June.

The eggs are laid individually on the underside of the leaf margin of different species of Lonicera.

The larva lives on different species of Lonicera, In our country most are on Lonicera xylosteum. Also rarely found on Symphoricarpus albus.

To be found where the food plant occurs in open wood, forest edges, etc..., a preference seems to exist for the shrubs in the open forest with fairly diffuse light.