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kasiaaus wrote:

22 min ago

Thank you @Alice. I will do my best to capture the head in particular. Legs are hard to photograph unless I maybe turn it upside down. I could try that. There were unfortunately none yesterday to experiment with. Maybe it's getting too cold.

Hydropsychidae sp. (family)

Alice wrote:

3 hrs ago

You ID hydroptilids successfully (small size, pointed wings with long fringes, although one or two genera have rounded wings). Beyond that, when keying out caddisflies presence or absence of ocelli on head ('eye spots' but these can be difficult to see); flexibility or not of last segment of maxillary palps (if flexible they usually fold back at rest); form of dorsal surface of middle segment of thorax; number of spurs on legs; a few species are easy to identify from their wing patterns. Other useful features are difficult to see on live specimens or without a microscope. Alice

Hydropsychidae sp. (family)

kasiaaus wrote:

Yesterday

Thanks @Alice. Is there any body part that I should be taking better photos of when I take photos of Caddisflies to make them easier to identify?

Hydropsychidae sp. (family)

Mike wrote:

Yesterday

Thanks @DonFletcher, I don’t usually report termite nests, but this stump was shared with coconut ants.

Nasutitermes exitiosus

Alice wrote:

Yesterday

It's a caddisfly, but hard to see defining features for family. Probably a hydropsychid (Hydropsychidae). The larvae build sand-grain shelters on the down side of flow over rocks and logs and spin a net that entraps small particles that they sweep up and feed on.

Hydropsychidae sp. (family)

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