Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

OUTSTUDY – They’re known as cased caddis, rock rollers or periwinkles to kids probing rocky streams and fly fishermen who imitate caddis flies in their various life stages to catch trout. But these ...

Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

Hard, lean and strong, an inch-long stone fly lurks in the depths of Woods Creek north of Monroe. Nearby an unaware mayfly scrapes a meal of algae off a rock. Suddenly the stone fly scurries across ...

Instead of stitches and screws, doctors are looking to the next generation of medical adhesives — glues and tape — to patch us up. Their inspiration? Water-loving creatures like oysters, marine worms ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS ” Live fast and die young. It could be the motto of the caddis flies that flutter into windshields and car grills and nooks and crannies of all manner after a mass hatching from the ...

Marsha Stipe lives near the Columbia River in Richland and pretty much every day she goes for a walk along the scenic path. “Well, they’re quite annoying I’ll say that,” Stipe said. She’s talking ...

Fly fishers have a lot of learning to do when it comes to all of the insects that tempt a trout. Of the four main insect groups — midges, caddis flies, mayflies and stoneflies — it is the stoneflies ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. As May progresses toward June in Maine’s bottom third, rivers and streams ...

BASALT – Mother’s Day caddis. These three words make fisherman shutter in their wading boots as spring finally takes hold. Though the Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers have good mayfly hatches, both ...