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Title: Dried caddis cases
Description: Empty caddis cases can be dried and glued to card to make museum-style specimens. However the silk the larva uses to join the bits together is weak, especially when dry and after a time in the air, so cases often fall to bits unless well glued down.
Photographer: Ian Wallace
Curator: Freshwater Biological Association
Copyright Holder: Ian Wallace
Publisher: Freshwater Biological Association
Note (original item): Record creation date:2008-10-31 10:34:59
Subject Keywords: Trichoptera; Caddis fly case; Ian Wallace; Caddis cases
Geographic Keywords: United Kingdom
Taxonomic Keywords: Limnephilidae; Limnephilus
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This item is published under the licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
If you wish to make use of the item commercially email: dis@fba.org.uk
Citation of this item should be as follows:
Wallace, Ian [Photographer] (2016) Dried caddis cases [image] Freshwater Biological Association [publisher] Permalink: http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/fbaia:3368
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