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 ...

(a) Number of observation records per 500-m elevational band. (b) Number of genera and the number of their observation records in the database. (c) Cumulative number of observation records of each ...

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 ...

Scientists have shed light on the evolutionary biology and distribution of Stenopsyche caddisflies, a common insect in Japanese rivers and a local delicacy. The discovery also identified new genetic ...

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 ...

Caddisfly adults only live for about a month. Females lay their eggs in water, where the larvae hatch and swim. Entomology has a permanent souvenir of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of a ...

Ever try taping something together underwater? Of course not. It wouldn't work. Don't tell that to the larvae of caddisflies, a large family of underwater insects closely related to moths and ...

We already mimic them to make fly-fishing lures. But now scientists working on some advanced medical technology believe copycatting one tiny insect could hold promise for repairing human tissues and ...