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Definition of Caddice fly
1. Noun. Small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae.
Generic synonyms: Trichopteran, Trichopteron, Trichopterous Insect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caddice Fly
Literary usage of Caddice fly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"But in some of the orders of insects a remark- FIG. 27. — Wing of a pupa of a
caddice fly. able reduction of the ..."
2. The harmonies of nature; or, The unity of Creation by Georg Ludwig Hartwig (1866)
"... and Stigmata—The Butterfly's Wing under the Microscope—-Defences of
Insects—Vitality—Concealments—The caddice fly—The Small Ermine ..."
3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"3123 Cases of caddice fly Larvae, . . 3125 Life History of caddice fly, . .
3127 Common Scorpion Fly, . . . 3128 Life History of Alder Fly, . ..."
4. Proceedings of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"The larvae of the "cob-house" building caddice-fly exceeded any other insect ...
In a brook not far distant, the pebble building caddice fly abounds in the ..."
5. Mind in Nature: Or, The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development in Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"C2 embryo of the common black Caddice- fly (Mystacides nigra, Latr.) of Europe,
a little moth-like insect with very long thread-like feelers and wings ..."
6. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"They carry the case about with them, crawling along the bottom, and even rising
to Fig- 355- Caddice-Fly, ..."
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