page_title: Stigmella obliquella
section_title: Larva
hierarchical_section_title: Stigmella obliquella / Description / Larva
caption_attribution_description: Stigmella obliquella mine, Deeside, North Wales, Oct 2013
context_page_description: Stigmella obliquella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae which feeds on willow and can be found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by Hermann von Heinemann in 1862.
context_section_description: The larva is amber-yellow with a brown head and has a faint chain of pear-shaped dark ventral spots.
  The larvae feed on Salix alba, Salix babylonica, Salix x chrysocoma, Salix fragilis, Salix pentandra, Salix triandra and Salix viminalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant feeding inside a widening corridor. Its course is variable, but generally it contains several long nearly straight segments.
caption: Stigmella obliquella mine
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "4752", "Image ImageLength": "3168", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 13.0 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2015:08:21 13:54:04", "Image ExifOffset": "240", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "390", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7464", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1500", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "902"}