caddisfly in English
noun
1
a small, mothlike insect with an aquatic larva that typically builds a protective, portable case of sticks, stones, and other particles. Some kinds have been traditionally used as bait by fishermen.
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1. Alderflies are brownish and rather stout, caddisfly -like insects, and are abundant near water in the early summer
2. Other parasites of the Wood Turtle include trematodes, an acanthocephalan, caddisfly larvae (an epibiont), and the flesh fly, Sarcophagus spp., which may parasitize eggs and hatchlings (Foscarini, 1994; Walde, 1998; Smith, 2002).