Insect Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
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Common Name
| Match | Common Name |
 | Caddisflies |
Fly Imitations by Orvis
| Stage | Fly Pattern |
| Larva | Case Caddis |
| Larva | Czech Mate |
| Emerger | SparkleWing Caddis Emerger |
| Pupa | LaFontaine Sparkle Pupa |
| Adult | Elk Wing Caddis |
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66 Caddisfly Specimens:
Hydropsyche (Spotted Sedges) Caddisfly Adult
View 4 Pictures
View 4 PicturesRegion: Upper Midwest
Collected May 16, 2004
Added Jan 25, 2006
Apatania (Early Smoky Wing Sedges) Caddisfly Adult
View 7 PicturesThis one actually had a medium tan body when it emerged. By the time I took the picture it was dark as night. I was actually looking through my box of specimens trying to figure out where that tan one I caught disappeared to. Then I realized this is it.
View 7 PicturesThis one actually had a medium tan body when it emerged. By the time I took the picture it was dark as night. I was actually looking through my box of specimens trying to figure out where that tan one I caught disappeared to. Then I realized this is it.Region: Catskills
Collected May 15, 2007
Added May 18, 2007
Cheumatopsyche (Little Sister Sedges) Caddisfly Pupa
View 8 PicturesI'm just guessing this is B. appalachia, since I collected it at a time when that species was hatching heavily on this river system. Feel free to jump in and correct me if it's wrong!
View 8 PicturesI'm just guessing this is B. appalachia, since I collected it at a time when that species was hatching heavily on this river system. Feel free to jump in and correct me if it's wrong!Region: Catskills
Collected May 13, 2007
Added May 18, 2007
Neophylax (Autumn Mottled Sedges) Caddisfly Larva
View 11 PicturesI haven't really had time to ID this one; I'm just tentatively guessing based on the case that it's in Glossosomatidae.
View 11 PicturesI haven't really had time to ID this one; I'm just tentatively guessing based on the case that it's in Glossosomatidae.Region: Northeast
Collected Apr 14, 2007
Added Apr 22, 2007
Apatania (Early Smoky Wing Sedges) Caddisfly Adult
View 8 Pictures
View 8 PicturesRegion: Catskills
Collected May 13, 2007
Added May 18, 2007
Dolophilodes distinctus (Tiny Black Gold Speckled-Winged Caddis) Caddisfly Adult
View 6 PicturesThis caddis species was dancing high over the stream, spaced a foot or two apart across most of its width, very much like Ephemera mayfly spinners but with more side-to-side motion mixed in. There were more than enough to get the trout interested, but I wasn't able to stick around until they fell on the water (if they did at all).
View 6 PicturesThis caddis species was dancing high over the stream, spaced a foot or two apart across most of its width, very much like Ephemera mayfly spinners but with more side-to-side motion mixed in. There were more than enough to get the trout interested, but I wasn't able to stick around until they fell on the water (if they did at all).Region: Poconos
Collected May 28, 2007
Added Jun 4, 2007
Hydropsychidae Caddisfly Larva
View 2 Pictures
View 2 PicturesRegion: Northeast
Collected Mar 13, 2005
Added Apr 5, 2006
Neophylax (Autumn Mottled Sedges) Caddisfly Larva
View 9 Pictures
View 9 PicturesRegion: Northeast
Collected Mar 30, 2007
Added Apr 2, 2007
Brachycentrus appalachia (Apple Caddis) Caddisfly Adult
View 9 PicturesThe wings of this specimen were pale tan, almost white, when I collected it, and the body was of the lighter "apple green" from which this species gets its common name. Everything turned much darker by the time I got it home and under the camera.
The wings look even darker in some of these pictures because the background is black and the wings are unusually translucent. You can see that in one of the pictures where the body easily through the wings. They're really a light, translucent gray, which is still far from the pale tan of the same fly when it was freshly emerged.
View 9 PicturesThe wings of this specimen were pale tan, almost white, when I collected it, and the body was of the lighter "apple green" from which this species gets its common name. Everything turned much darker by the time I got it home and under the camera.The wings look even darker in some of these pictures because the background is black and the wings are unusually translucent. You can see that in one of the pictures where the body easily through the wings. They're really a light, translucent gray, which is still far from the pale tan of the same fly when it was freshly emerged.
Region: Catskills
Collected May 15, 2007
Added May 18, 2007
Triaenodes Caddisfly Adult
View 4 Pictures
View 4 PicturesRegion: Upper Midwest
Collected Aug 7, 2004
Added Jan 25, 2006
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