DAY 25. CADDISFLY - POTTER
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
DAY 25. CADDISFLY - POTTER
July 26, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Let's introduce you to my colleagues: the caddisfly larvae. 👋 These underwater insects built protective casings that were originally made from plant material, snail shells or small stones. They are true architects. 📐📏 2/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Let's introduce you to my colleagues: the caddisfly larvae. 👋 These underwater insects built protective casings that were originally made from plant material, snail shells or small stones. They are true architects. 📐📏 2/x
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Another Caddisfly larva feeding, this time on a more typical food, scraping algae/biofilm off a dead leaf
Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae
#Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies
Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae
#Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies
January 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Another Caddisfly larva feeding, this time on a more typical food, scraping algae/biofilm off a dead leaf
Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae
#Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies
Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae
#Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies
More concepts for Kromlech: hive "architecture". I wanted the lurgs to be further from the greenskinned mongol barbarian orc stereotype and to use more animal elements - beaver dams, wasp nests, the shells of caddisfly larvae.
May 5, 2026 at 8:22 AM
More concepts for Kromlech: hive "architecture". I wanted the lurgs to be further from the greenskinned mongol barbarian orc stereotype and to use more animal elements - beaver dams, wasp nests, the shells of caddisfly larvae.
Caddisfly larva (Trichoptera) with its portable case made out of diatoms. 🔬🦠🌱
#nature #science #biology #microscopy
#nature #science #biology #microscopy
March 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Caddisfly larva (Trichoptera) with its portable case made out of diatoms. 🔬🦠🌱
#nature #science #biology #microscopy
#nature #science #biology #microscopy
everyone love caddisfly larva :)
August 29, 2026 at 1:11 AM
everyone love caddisfly larva :)
Occupied but deep in the retreat.
BUT! It stuck a little pisidium clam on its case.
Northern Case Maker Caddisfly
(Trichoptera: Limnephilidae)
🌿
BUT! It stuck a little pisidium clam on its case.
Northern Case Maker Caddisfly
(Trichoptera: Limnephilidae)
🌿
July 15, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Occupied but deep in the retreat.
BUT! It stuck a little pisidium clam on its case.
Northern Case Maker Caddisfly
(Trichoptera: Limnephilidae)
🌿
BUT! It stuck a little pisidium clam on its case.
Northern Case Maker Caddisfly
(Trichoptera: Limnephilidae)
🌿
"It is giving evil Olaf from Frozen," as said by the observant person who captured these amazing photos of an insect-colonizing fungus species, Erynia rhizospora, on a caddisfly.
August 4, 2026 at 10:23 PM
"It is giving evil Olaf from Frozen," as said by the observant person who captured these amazing photos of an insect-colonizing fungus species, Erynia rhizospora, on a caddisfly.
It’s like a bag worm and a caddisfly larvae. Looking it up now.
September 18, 2026 at 3:48 PM
It’s like a bag worm and a caddisfly larvae. Looking it up now.
For those that haven't watched my latest pond dipping YT video, here are some clips of the phryganeidae Caddisfly nymph, including the moment I saw it eating something, that turned out to be a Dragonfly Nymph!
Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelz...
#PondLife #Caddisfly #Bugsky
Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelz...
#PondLife #Caddisfly #Bugsky
January 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
For those that haven't watched my latest pond dipping YT video, here are some clips of the phryganeidae Caddisfly nymph, including the moment I saw it eating something, that turned out to be a Dragonfly Nymph!
Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelz...
#PondLife #Caddisfly #Bugsky
Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelz...
#PondLife #Caddisfly #Bugsky
A little caddisfly on a lichen-covered boulder, near a waterfall in Montana. Caddisfly adults look a bit like moths, and in fact their order (Trichoptera) is most closely related to moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera). Caddisflies have aquatic larvae which can spin silk.
June 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
A little caddisfly on a lichen-covered boulder, near a waterfall in Montana. Caddisfly adults look a bit like moths, and in fact their order (Trichoptera) is most closely related to moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera). Caddisflies have aquatic larvae which can spin silk.
Holy crap on a cracker! FINALLY ID'd this caddisfly!
Only took 8 years. (and you thought bird ID was hard🤣)
Found 5 more yesterday, same spot - first I've seen since 2018 - but went the same week this year (whoda thunk! 🤦♀️)
THEN scrolled through 20 pages of Oregon caddisfly pics-- 1/3 #inverts
Only took 8 years. (and you thought bird ID was hard🤣)
Found 5 more yesterday, same spot - first I've seen since 2018 - but went the same week this year (whoda thunk! 🤦♀️)
THEN scrolled through 20 pages of Oregon caddisfly pics-- 1/3 #inverts
June 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Holy crap on a cracker! FINALLY ID'd this caddisfly!
Only took 8 years. (and you thought bird ID was hard🤣)
Found 5 more yesterday, same spot - first I've seen since 2018 - but went the same week this year (whoda thunk! 🤦♀️)
THEN scrolled through 20 pages of Oregon caddisfly pics-- 1/3 #inverts
Only took 8 years. (and you thought bird ID was hard🤣)
Found 5 more yesterday, same spot - first I've seen since 2018 - but went the same week this year (whoda thunk! 🤦♀️)
THEN scrolled through 20 pages of Oregon caddisfly pics-- 1/3 #inverts
Nice caddisfly! Yellow spotted sedge, Philopotamus montanus. And plenty of them!
#yellowspottedsedge #philopotamusmontanus #caddisfly #waterfall #runningwaterspecies #stengömmenattslända #philopotamidae #röttlevattenfall #insectphotography #macrophotography #biodiversity #Inaturalist
#yellowspottedsedge #philopotamusmontanus #caddisfly #waterfall #runningwaterspecies #stengömmenattslända #philopotamidae #röttlevattenfall #insectphotography #macrophotography #biodiversity #Inaturalist
April 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Nice caddisfly! Yellow spotted sedge, Philopotamus montanus. And plenty of them!
#yellowspottedsedge #philopotamusmontanus #caddisfly #waterfall #runningwaterspecies #stengömmenattslända #philopotamidae #röttlevattenfall #insectphotography #macrophotography #biodiversity #Inaturalist
#yellowspottedsedge #philopotamusmontanus #caddisfly #waterfall #runningwaterspecies #stengömmenattslända #philopotamidae #röttlevattenfall #insectphotography #macrophotography #biodiversity #Inaturalist
The cool looking caddisfly Mystacides azurea, seen 25/06/25 at Tameside Nature Reserve, #Staffs #caddisfly
June 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The cool looking caddisfly Mystacides azurea, seen 25/06/25 at Tameside Nature Reserve, #Staffs #caddisfly
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I combined my insect alphabet with my postcard today— & C is for one of my favorites, caddisfly larva!
📞: Rep’d by @liznealon.bsky.social at @greatdoglit.bsky.social
🎨: www.wineberrywoodpress.com/portfolio/
#kidlitpostcard #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #ArtABCs
I combined my insect alphabet with my postcard today— & C is for one of my favorites, caddisfly larva!
📞: Rep’d by @liznealon.bsky.social at @greatdoglit.bsky.social
🎨: www.wineberrywoodpress.com/portfolio/
#kidlitpostcard #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #ArtABCs
February 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I combined my insect alphabet with my postcard today— & C is for one of my favorites, caddisfly larva!
📞: Rep’d by @liznealon.bsky.social at @greatdoglit.bsky.social
🎨: www.wineberrywoodpress.com/portfolio/
#kidlitpostcard #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #ArtABCs
I combined my insect alphabet with my postcard today— & C is for one of my favorites, caddisfly larva!
📞: Rep’d by @liznealon.bsky.social at @greatdoglit.bsky.social
🎨: www.wineberrywoodpress.com/portfolio/
#kidlitpostcard #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #ArtABCs
“i need a benthic invertebrate that will help me assess water quality”
the helpful caddisfly:
the helpful caddisfly:
January 14, 2026 at 3:21 PM
“i need a benthic invertebrate that will help me assess water quality”
the helpful caddisfly:
the helpful caddisfly:
July 3, 2024 at 5:11 PM
big breath
Some aquatic creatures* in their larval form, spin an intricate net, -underwater- using its own produced silk to capture food particles, is yet another reason life on Earth is like nowhere else.
I mean, look at the detail!!
*Hydropsychidae
Net-Spinning Caddisfly 🌿
Some aquatic creatures* in their larval form, spin an intricate net, -underwater- using its own produced silk to capture food particles, is yet another reason life on Earth is like nowhere else.
I mean, look at the detail!!
*Hydropsychidae
Net-Spinning Caddisfly 🌿
May 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
big breath
Some aquatic creatures* in their larval form, spin an intricate net, -underwater- using its own produced silk to capture food particles, is yet another reason life on Earth is like nowhere else.
I mean, look at the detail!!
*Hydropsychidae
Net-Spinning Caddisfly 🌿
Some aquatic creatures* in their larval form, spin an intricate net, -underwater- using its own produced silk to capture food particles, is yet another reason life on Earth is like nowhere else.
I mean, look at the detail!!
*Hydropsychidae
Net-Spinning Caddisfly 🌿
little black caddisfly (genus Chimarra)
May 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
little black caddisfly (genus Chimarra)
This study really shows the value of natural history collections 🏛️ We should cherish these institutions! You never know how important a single specimen might become. ✨ After 54 years in a drawer, this tiny casing turned out to have an incredible story to tell. 🐛 13/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This study really shows the value of natural history collections 🏛️ We should cherish these institutions! You never know how important a single specimen might become. ✨ After 54 years in a drawer, this tiny casing turned out to have an incredible story to tell. 🐛 13/x
Caddisfly larvae! Some species build cases from silk + various rocks, plant bits or even shells for protection – some arguably cosier than others
Important question: if you were a caddisfly, what would you use to build your case?
#SciArt #natureillustration
Important question: if you were a caddisfly, what would you use to build your case?
#SciArt #natureillustration
July 22, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Caddisfly larvae! Some species build cases from silk + various rocks, plant bits or even shells for protection – some arguably cosier than others
Important question: if you were a caddisfly, what would you use to build your case?
#SciArt #natureillustration
Important question: if you were a caddisfly, what would you use to build your case?
#SciArt #natureillustration
To find out we dived into the Naturalis collection. ✨
Far from being a single overarching collection, a natural history collection brings together many collections. 🏛️Some, such as the caddisfly’s casing, are miniature collections crafted by insects. 🐛 7/x
Far from being a single overarching collection, a natural history collection brings together many collections. 🏛️Some, such as the caddisfly’s casing, are miniature collections crafted by insects. 🐛 7/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
To find out we dived into the Naturalis collection. ✨
Far from being a single overarching collection, a natural history collection brings together many collections. 🏛️Some, such as the caddisfly’s casing, are miniature collections crafted by insects. 🐛 7/x
Far from being a single overarching collection, a natural history collection brings together many collections. 🏛️Some, such as the caddisfly’s casing, are miniature collections crafted by insects. 🐛 7/x
Check out this thread on the use of caddisfly casings to investigate the history of microplastic pollution. 🧪 #invert
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Check out this thread on the use of caddisfly casings to investigate the history of microplastic pollution. 🧪 #invert