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Family: Coleophoridae   Checklist Number: 37.071

Coleophora glaucicolella  Wood, 1892

Grey Rush Case-bearer

Common with numerous records from the southern islands. It can be confused with Coleophora alticolella which occupies the same habitat. Active from June to August. Various species of rush (Juncus) form the larval food-plants.

References: 
Sterling, P. & Parsons, M. (2023 second edition). Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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