As an adult, the caddisfly looks like a nondescript, slender brown moth. But as larvae, these fascinating insects build ...

Caddisflies (order Trichoptera) form a diverse and ecologically essential group of insects in freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Larval cases and feeding structures have evolved in concert with stream ...

LAUGHLIN — Decades of human interference led to an explosion of the caddisfly population in the short stretch of Colorado River running alongside Laughlin. Now, a relatively simple manipulation of one ...

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From the amazing camouflage of pygmy seahorses to the unseen six needles a mosquito uses to suck your blood, to the sticky underwater tape of the caddisfly, Deep Look, KQED’s YouTube science series, ...

This study is led by Professor Dong Ren and Dr. Jiajia Wang (College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University). The obvious aggregations, a large gathering of adult caddisflies, were found in six ...

Marsha Stipe lives near the Columbia River in Richland and pretty much every day she goes for a walk along the scenic path. “Well, they’re quite annoying I’ll say that,” Stipe said. She’s talking ...

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 ...

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