Small red sedge
Tinodes waeneri
The small red sedge is a little caddisfly with reddish-brown wings and darker lines on them. It looks a bit like a small moth. You can find it near clean streams, rivers, lakes and ponds.
Lives in
Much of Europe, near clean fresh water
Length
5 to 9 mm (0.2 to 0.35 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its young grow up in the water, where they feed on tiny plants and algae.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 57 seconds⚡moves 200 times its own body length every second
How big is Small red sedge compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Small red sedge about 6.6 km/h (4.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It only lives where the water is clean.
2
Adults like bright lights and often fly to lamps in the evening.
3
You can see the adults from May to September.
4
Its front wings are only about 6 to 9 millimetres long.
you asked
Most asked questions about Small red sedge
?Is the small red sedge a moth?
No. It is a caddisfly, though it looks a bit like a small moth.
?When can you see the small red sedge?
From May to September, near streams, rivers and lakes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tinodes waeneri
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Psychomyiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Trichoptera > Psychomyiidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Tinodes waeneri (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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