page_title: Stigmella salicis
section_title: Larva
hierarchical_section_title: Stigmella salicis / Life cycle / Larva
caption_attribution_description: Stigmella salicis mine, Gronant dunes, North Wales, Sept 2015
context_page_description: Stigmella salicis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae which is found in Europe. It was first described by the English entomologist, Henry Stainton in 1854. The type locality is from England.
context_section_description: Larva, feed internally within a leaf and are amber-yellow with a pale brown head. They can be found in June and July and again from September to November.
  They mine the leaves of their host plant, in a gallery which can be variable and highly contorted. The mine starts comparatively wide and is initially almost filled with frass. Later there are clear margins and the frass becomes broken. The mine can follow a leaf margin, a rib or can be highly contorted. It later widens to form a blotch, or if highly contorted with 'S' bends, a false blotch. The larvae feed on Myrica gale, Salix alba, Salix atrocinerea, Salix aurita, Salix babylonica, Salix caprea, Salix cinerea, Salix daphnoides, Salix fragilis, Salix lanata, Salix pentandra, Salix purpurea, Salix repens, Salix silesiaca, Salix triandra and Salix viminalis. Mines on the narrow-leaved willows can be difficult to distinguish from those of S. obliquella.
caption: Mine showing the frass
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