caddisfly

Or cad·dice·fly

[kad-is-flahy]

noun

plural

caddisflies 

1. any of numerous aquatic insects constituting the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of membranous, often hairy wings and superficially resembling moths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of caddisfly¹

First recorded in 1780–90; caddisworm, fly ¹

Example Sentences

The limnephilus pati, a species of caddisfly, was discovered during a survey at Cors Goch Nature Reserve on Anglesey.

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Using light traps, surveyors had been looking for the limnephilus taricus species of caddisfly, but instead found the limnephilus patis, which is even rarer.

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Two years later she was sampling fish there and found one of the bugs, a caddisfly, in a fish’s gut.

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They discovered that the rolling terrain hid mazes of pools, where diving beetles moved busily between the surface and the bottom, caddisfly larvae trundled along inside protective shells they’d built from bits of clay and pebbles, and newts and frogs fed on the insects.

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Xia says he spends roughly $750,000 on Burmese amber per year, and grateful scientists like Wang have named species of cockroach, froghopper, parasitoid fly, and caddisfly for him.

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