A cocoon is distinct from both a pupa and chrysalis. It is a hard, silk shell that a moth larva weaves around itself before it enters the pupa stage of metamorphosis.

On July 29, the Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily reduce water releases from Davis Dam to support efforts to decrease the local caddisfly population.The ...

In a new study published and featured in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, researchers have discovered that the developmental struggles of young parasitoid flies can have lasting ...

All species of trout appreciate a good meal of caddisflies. Across New Mexico we see large caddis hatches that cause fish to heavily feed during the warmer months.

In the 1950s, Al Troth designed the elk hair caddis, which continues today as a must-have in every fly fisherman’s fly box. Troth died Aug. 3, but his legacy lives on.

There are over 120,000 species of flies, including houseflies, blowflies, fruit flies, gnats, hoverflies, and more. A fly’s life span consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

These are 7 essential dry flies that every trout angler should keep in their fly box.

RUTLAND — The Green Mountain Fly Tyers Club meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St. in Rutland. Eric Nelson will demonstrate the Don Bastian’s Hatching ...

Use floating, weight-forward taper lines, 4-7 weight, coupled with a 9-10 foot leader. Squeeze a strike indicator on just below where the leader joins the fly line and use either weighted flies or ...

Moreover, the ability to sort tsetse earlier, at their pupae state, allows for healthier sterile male tsetse to be sent to field programmes in sub-Saharan Africa as pupae are less fragile than adults.

Keys are given for the identification of the larvae, pupae and adults of the seventeen families of caddis flies that are represented in North America.