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Blasphemer!

Eventually I got one to pupate and that was the only one in 2 years to successful complete the lifecycle. If I’m unsure of the adult identification, there are still morphological experts I can turn to, I hope.

Sometimes they woudl leave the case and struggle with the molting, eventually dying

The Limnephilidae were easier, so I didn’t expect this to be so difficult, but these have open cases, not closed at one end. Sometime there is case stealing that occurs and I assume that if this occurs in nature, the dispossessed larva makes a new refuge or dies.

Larval identification to species can be difficult, so the ideal situation is to have an adult emerge from a larva identified to genus. Hence why I needed to successfully rear larvae to adults

There are some aquatic macroinvertebrates that have been shown to harbor pathogens as part of complex lifecycles. But, it was not clear whether there was species specificity of these reservoir hosts or if all macroinvertebrates in an infested water source would be just as likely to be infected.

Since then, I’ve become interested in their natural history, how they may contribute to maintenance of plants (some incorporate seeds of invasive plants into their cases), and have tried to experiment with changing out the invasive seeds with native plant seeds.

She spent part of her COVID summer quantifying the number of aquatic macroinvertebrates, but while the most abundant group was isopods, she loved that the caddiflies were builders. Because we had limited access to Trichoptera experts, I ordered a bunch of books to teach us identification

When we were in lockdown, I set up my phone for Timelapse to show my daughter how aquatic architects build their homes. This is why there are beads (we were testing whether they had preferences for building material).

Citation amplification may not be the correct term. Basically it’s when a paper cites someone and their paper is cited instead of the original author, and so on. Basically, it cuts out the original contribution and gives credit incorrectly to someone else.