caddisfly
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of caddisfly
First recorded in 1780–90; see origin at caddisworm, fly 1
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The limnephilus pati, a species of caddisfly, was discovered during a survey at Cors Goch Nature Reserve on Anglesey.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
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.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2019
For instance, caddisfly larvae, which sometimes measure only a tenth of an inch long, may be the world’s tiniest artisans.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 23, 2018
Reaching into the water, he plucks out a couple of rocks, turns them over and points out six types of insect clinging to the underside, including caddisfly larvae and a stonefly.
From Nature ● Jul. 29, 2014
After a while he will cling to some weed near the surface, and spin a chrysalis, from which the caddisfly will break forth.
From Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Crucially, the data show that families that are particularly sensitive to river pollution, like mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies, are recovering most strongly of all.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
Aquatic insects, such as caddisflies and mayflies, though, are adapted to natural seasonal flooding and lay eggs just below the surface of the water.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
With that insight, she got permission from King County to seed four creeks with caddisflies, mayflies, stoneflies and other species.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
The caddisflies coated various surfaces near the lights.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2013
Witness Paul Whillock's incredibly realistic "Flies As Art", exquisite reproductions of anatomically correct stoneflies, mayflies, caddisflies, even a frighteningly accurate praying mantis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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