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  • Ecologists Assemble
  • bubs
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    What is this just emerging and how long have our tadpoles got? Kids are not going to be happy…

    It doesn’t look quite right for a damsel/dragonfly nymph but it is coming out of a tube/casing. The photo makes it look bigger than it is. Taken from lowland, ephemeral pond.

    Posted 8 years ago
    bubs
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    Caddisfly maybe?

    Posted 8 years ago
    cdoc
    Free Member

    Yeah, looks like a Caddisfly,(Trichopetra).
    There are loads of different species so an exact id is pretty difficult until it pupates. Some are scavengers, some feed on decaying plant matter and some are ferociously predatory, so no idea how the tadpoles will fare.

    Posted 8 years ago
    no_eyed_deer
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    +1 ^

    Posted 8 years ago
    Stevet1
    Free Member

    Tadpoles eat each other anyway.

    Posted 8 years ago
    bubs
    Full Member

    Tadpoles eat each other anyway.

    Not if you feed them….

    Posted 8 years ago
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