The images above illustrate the results of an unusual artistic
collaboration between the French artist Hubert Duprat and a group of
caddis fly larvae. A small winged insect belonging to the order
Trichoptera and closely related to the butterfly, caddis flies live near
streams and ponds and produce aquatic larvae that protect their
developing bodies by manufacturing sheaths, or cases, spun from silk
and incorporating substances—grains of sand, particles of mineral or
plant material, bits of fish bone or crustacean shell—readily available
in their benthic ecosystem. The larvae are remarkably adaptable: if
other suitable materials are introduced into their environment, they
will often incorporate those as well.
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