Yellow spotted sedge
The yellow spotted sedge is a caddisfly, a moth-like insect that grows up in water. It is light brown or yellowish with lots of dark brown spots on its wings. Its babies live in fast, stony streams.
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Fun facts
Its babies build long tube-shaped nets and fix them to rocks in the stream.
It loves fast-flowing water and lives in brooks with little rapids.
The grown-ups fly from February all the way to October.
It has one new generation every year.
Most asked questions about Yellow spotted sedge
?What is a yellow spotted sedge?
It is a caddisfly, an insect that looks a bit like a moth and grows up in streams.
?Where does the yellow spotted sedge live?
Across Europe, near small fast stony streams in hilly places.
?How big is the yellow spotted sedge?
Its body is 4 to 9 millimetres long and its wings span 12 to 20 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Philopotamus montanus
- Named by
- Donovan, 1813
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Philopotamidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Trichoptera > Philopotamidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Philopotamus montanus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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