The approaching caddis emergence on the Eagle River holds promise of epic angling. Insects that have developed slowly over the last year are ready to move. The arrival of caddis on the Eagle River is ...

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 ...

BASALT – During the month of May, the first big hatches of brachycentrus caddis flies begin to hatch. Though they’re often dubbed “mayflies,” because they hatch during the month of May, this insect is ...

I have been thinking about Mom. Days on the calendar keep getting crossed off. Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching. My gaze falls over the river. A small moth bounces across the water. Closer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin M. Stout III has harnessed the creative energy of thousands of insect larvae. In a 400-gallon “simulated stream ecosystem” in his West Virginia garage, about 3,000 caddis flies are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...