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| Shakeyfly | October 17th, 2012, 7:18 pm | |
| Massachusetts Posts: 11 | This is a very amateur question... but do different species or families of caddisflies make their cases out of different materials? or do they all just use whats available to them? Meaning when I do a search for brachycentrus, I noticed almost all the images are of the 4 sided wooden cases. Are the caddisflies that make their cases out of stones and pebbles a different subgenus/family/species? Thanks for the input and information! | |
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| Taxon | October 17th, 2012, 10:56 pm | |
 Site Editor Royse City, TXPosts: 1350 | Shakeyfly- The best categorization of caddisfly larval cases (which I have seen) appears as the row headings of a table in W. Patrick McCafferty's wonderful book, Aquatic Entomology:  The full table has a column for each of the different caddisfly families, but the row headings should provide you a feel for the variety of larval caddisfly case types. I believe that a given species of caddisfly tends to build the save type of cases, but expect there are probably numerous exceptions. With regard to Brachycentrus, as I recall, not all of the species build square cases, as some species build tubular cases. | |
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| Shakeyfly | November 19th, 2012, 2:33 pm | |
| Massachusetts Posts: 11 | Thanks for the awesome reply! sorry for the delay..I was out steelheadin! :) | |
| The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad - A.K. Best Catching fish is as incidental to fishing as making babies is to #$%&ing. ~William Humphrey Here's to swimmin' with bow legged women. - Jaws | ||
| Risenfly | December 18th, 2012, 3:25 pm | |
 Posts: 9 | If you're trying to imitate these bugs then try using lead tape. You can form it a bit more than the lead wire to help get the box, or cylinder shape you want and then advance with your other materials. | |
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