Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

Imagine the semester has just begun and you’re out in the forest walking in a freshwater stream and you decide to turn over a few rocks. You’d start to find tiny cylindrical bundles of pretty minerals ...

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French artist Hubert Duprat has made many types of sculptures over the past few decades, but our favorite is his “collaborations” with caddisfly larvae. The insects live in streams and ponds and ...

Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how ...

Dartmoor, Devon: I find three of these secretive insects in my pond, disguised as a disorganised jumble of foliage, bark and plant snippets The vegetation at the bottom of my pond stirred, and three ...