{"id":2803,"date":"2014-10-22T08:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2014-10-22T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:48:42","slug":"house-building-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2014\/10\/22\/house-building-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"House-building Insects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is of a caddisfly larva and the mobile leaf-house it has constructed.\u00a0 The head and legs emerge from the tube, and the larva trots around the pond or stream bottom fairly well protected from predators. Each species of caddisfly builds a uniquely different casing depending on the habitat and their needs, everything from this leaf variety to those made of sticks, sand grains or even snail shells. The bits, sometimes meticulously sized and shaped by the larva, are held together by silk and saliva they secrete.\u00a0 The larva pupates within the casing and emerges from the water as a weak-flying winged insect.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video of Grade 4 students from Moffat Creek PS describing the cool caddisfly they discovered during Habitat Studies at Blair yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caddisfly Larva\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TtGQxPsbHPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some jewellers are putting beads, gemstones and bits of\u00a0 glass and precious metals into aquariums to have the insects construct pieces of art for them.\u00a0 Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2013\/03\/caddisfly-larvae-cases\/\">great photos<\/a> of other caddisfly casings, and some of the art pieces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wonder what we&#8217;ll find today???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is of a caddisfly larva and the mobile leaf-house it has constructed.\u00a0 The head and legs emerge from the tube, and the larva trots around the pond or stream bottom fairly well protected from predators. Each species of caddisfly builds a uniquely different casing depending on the habitat and their needs, everything [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2014\/10\/22\/house-building-insects\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>House-building Insects?<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}