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 SPECIES of instinct thought to be extinct in Britain for almost a decade has been spotted. The discovery was made at the ...
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 ...
The larvae are large enough, at up to three quarters of an inch long, that they can be dissected and examined to see how much food ends up in their guts. Palmer and Cardinale, along with adjunct ...
(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 ...
Japanese scientists have shed light on the evolutionary biology and distribution of Stenopsyche caddisflies, also known as sedge flies, a common insect in Japanese rivers and a local delicacy. The new ...
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 ...
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 ...