Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order TRICHOPTERA

Family PHILOPOTAMIDAE

(Finger-net Caddisflies)

Finger-net Caddisfly larvae (42 NA spp) form finger-shaped fishing-nets attached to stones in rapidly flowing streams. Minnesota genera--Chimarra(4), Dolophilodes(1), Wormaldia(1).  This Family unlikely to occur at CCNHA.


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000