Diamond northern caddisfly
The diamond northern caddisfly is a caddisfly, an insect that looks a bit like a small moth with hairy wings. Its babies live in water. Like many caddisfly babies, they build a little tube house around their soft bodies.
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Fun facts
There are two kinds of it, called subspecies, that live in different places.
It lives across Europe and northern Asia, and also in North America.
Caddisflies are cousins of moths and butterflies, but their wings are covered with tiny hairs instead of scales.
Most asked questions about Diamond northern caddisfly
?What is a caddisfly?
An insect that looks like a small moth. Its babies grow up in water, often inside a little tube house they build.
?Where does the diamond northern caddisfly live?
In Europe, northern Asia and North America, near water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limnephilus rhombicus
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Limnephilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Trichoptera > Limnephilidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Limnephilus rhombicus (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 AfroBrazilian. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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