Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
They're daddy-long-legs / crane flies. Mayflies hatch from water:
aka
caddis fly, the grubs make a protective jacket of débris and carry
it
about. May be of grass, reed, and twig detritus, or small pebbles
and
bits of shell.
[...]
Some people call caddis "mayflies", but it would mislead a fisherman.
Caddis flies = mayflies.
Not to biologists :-) Caddis flies are members of the Order Trichoptera;
mayflies are Ephemeroptera. Quite different.
regards
sarah
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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