It also feeds on the leaves of other fruit trees and deciduous forest and shade trees. This species occurs in middle and southern Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR and central Asia, and mainland China.
Adults emerge in spring and eggs are deposited singly on the undersides of leaves.
The larvae make round, blister-like mines in the upper leaf layers, leaving the mines to spin their cocoons and pupate. From one to five generations per growing season have been reported from Europe. The larvae are solitary miners on the upper surfaces of the leaves. Fruit is not affected. The moths are small in size.