caddisfly

or cad·dice·fly

[ kad-is-flahy ]

noun

, plural cad·dis·flies.

1. any of numerous aquatic insects constituting the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of membranous, often hairy wings and superficially resembling moths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of caddisfly¹

First recorded in 1780–90; caddisworm, fly ¹

Example Sentences

Two years later she was sampling fish there and found one of the bugs, a caddisfly, in a fish’s gut.

From Scientific American

They discovered that the rolling terrain hid mazes of pools, where diving beetles moved busily between the surface and the bottom, caddisfly larvae trundled along inside protective shells they’d built from bits of clay and pebbles, and newts and frogs fed on the insects.

From The Guardian

Xia says he spends roughly $750,000 on Burmese amber per year, and grateful scientists like Wang have named species of cockroach, froghopper, parasitoid fly, and caddisfly for him.

From Science Magazine

Other recent research found that half of the mayfly and caddisfly larvae in rivers in Wales contained microplastics.

From The Guardian

For instance, caddisfly larvae, which sometimes measure only a tenth of an inch long, may be the world’s tiniest artisans.

From National Geographic