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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For the study, the researchers presented larvae with pieces of plastic film cut from a commercially available biodegradable plastic bag, alongside pieces of oak leaf. Credit: Katey Valentine, ...
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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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