Trichoptera: latan - common

Cased Caddis: Lives inside a cased made from sand, twigs, needles, pebbles, etc.. They have six legs on thorax and small attenna, usaully not visible. They leave their cases somtimes and drift free, they also leave thier case to when in pupa stage to swim to surface.

(The six of the important families);

Brachycentridae

~Brachycentrus Subnubilus

American Grannom

Lepidostomatidae

~Lepidostoma

Little Plain Brown Sedge

Leptoceridae

~Mystacides

Black Dancer

~Nectopsyche

White Miller

~Oecetis

Long Horn Sedge

Limnephilidae

~Pycnopsyche

Great Brown Autumn Sedge

~Hydatophylax

Giant Cream Sedge

~Frenesia

Dot Wing Winter Sedge

~Platycentropus

Chocolate and Cream Sedge

~Limnephilus

Summer Flyer Sedge

~Hesperophylax

Silver Striped Sedge

~Neophylax

Autumn Mottled Sedge

Odontoceridae

~Psilotreta

Dark Blue Wing Sedge

Phryganeidae

~Pyryganea

Rusty Sedge

~Ptilostomis

Giant Rusty Sedge

Free Living Caddis: Greenish maggot like body, six legs, two anal hooks. they crawl along floor like a predator searching out prey. the can slip and drift for long period.

(one family);

Rhyacophilidae

~Rhyacophila

Green Rock Worm

Net Spinning Caddis: These are the fishermen of aquatic insects, they build little homes where they spin a net between rocks or other strucures and catch drifting organisms.

(two important families);

Philopotamidae

~Chimarra

Little Black Sedge

~Wormaldia

Little Autumn Sedge

Hydrophsychidae

~Hydropsyche

Spotted Sedge

~Cheumatopsyche

Little Spotted Sedge

~Arctopsyche

Grey Spotted Sedge

~Macronema

Glossy Wing Sedge