The female chews a hole into a flower bud and oviposits onto an anther. She then plugs the hole with a fecal pellet and proceeds to chew the flower’s pedicel. Such flower buds either fall off immediately or die attached to the raceme and fall a few days later. Larvae feed and pupate inside the unopened flower buds.

- Michael Wise: (2007) The herbivores of Solanum carolinense (Horsenettle) in northern Virginia: natural history and damage assessment^©