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Example sentences for "caddis"

Lexicographically close words:
cadaverous; cadavers; cadavre; caddie; caddies; caddises; caddish; caddy; cademy; cadence
  1. A caddis worm is a busy creature," his uncle replied.

  2. In the first column, describe the structure of the caddis larva and fly; in the second, that of the cabbage caterpillar and butterfly.

  3. A tiny caddis grub, no bigger than this pin-head, comes out of each egg.

  4. What has been going on in the larva cage has also been going on here in the water, for caddis worms are simply water-caterpillars.

  5. Yes; you see a caddis worm cannot do without fresh water, even when he is asleep; so, before going to sleep, he builds a grating over the entrance.

  6. If trout could speak, they might tell you that the sweetest morsel in the stream is the caddis worm.

  7. How does the caddis larva first get into the water?

  8. The third one held the caddis worms and some other curious creatures that had been found in the ditch.

  9. If you look, you will find five empty caddis cases in the tank.

  10. The Toiling Caddis 88 Appendix 95 "LOOK ABOUT YOU.

  11. Caddis worms are to be found in almost every stream, pond, and ditch.

  12. When you have finished your sketch, place the empty caddis case in the saucer, and watch how the creature gets into it.

  13. If there are no rushes or floating leaves about, he is sure to drown; for your caddis is no longer a water insect, but a fly inside a thin skin.

  14. The Bushmen worshiped a Caddis worm and an antelope (a species of deer).

  15. As with the caddis larvae, the different species may be known by the materials they select to construct their tubes, but in captivity they may be compelled to employ other than their favourite substance for this purpose.

  16. He had never seen a caddis with a house-door before: so what must he do, the meddlesome little fellow, but pull it open, to see what the poor lady was doing inside.

  17. What observing country boy has not seen the queer-looking Caddis worms in the brooks and their curious larva cases.

  18. The features that remind us of caterpillars are superadded, evidently the result of the peculiar tube-inhabiting habits of the young Caddis fly.

  19. That the cylindrical form of the bee grub and caterpillar is the result of modification through descent is evident in the caterpillar-like form of the immature Caddis fly (Pl.

  20. Caddis flies, in which, especially the latter, the metamorphosis is complete, the pupa being inactive and enclosed in a cocoon.

  21. He had never seen a caddis with a house door before; so what must he do, the meddlesome little fellow, but pull it open, to see what the poor lady was doing inside.

  22. An insect order to which belong the caddis flies.

  23. Mr. Caddis repeated it, after his fathers; his fathers and he had not headed them out of that original voracity.

  24. Colonel Corfe and Mr. Caddis declined to consider such conduct English, in a man of station .

  25. Victor beamed; for Mr. Caddis had previously stood eminent as an iceberg of the Lakelands' party.

  26. Mr. Caddis was left reflecting, that we have, in the dispensations of Providence, when we have a seat, to submit to castigations from butcherly men unaccountably commissioned to solidify the seat.

  27. Caddis flies building bright, shining new nests, and dragonfly nymphs crawling up toward the sunlight, and pollywogs growing sturdy hindlimbs to conquer the land.

  28. Uncle Al was like a bright caddis fly building a fine new nest, thatched with kindness, denying himself bright little Mardi Gras pleasures so that Jimmy could go to school and grow wiser than Uncle Al.

  29. For food, caddis or other water insects are best; but gentles would perhaps do, if the former are not to be had.

  30. Flies may be put on the surface, and will be appreciated; but the trout will seldom take them while you are watching, though they will often eat the caddis as you put them in, and even chase the shrimps.

  31. They will gradually, though very slowly, get tame, and will come out from their shelter under a weed to eat a caddis as you drop it from your hand.

  32. The insects produced from the caddis or case-worm.

  33. The Phryganidae, or Caddis Flies, are known by their larvae, of which anglers make great use.

  34. The Trichoptera, or Caddis worms, offer many points of resemblance to the Neuroptera, while in others they approach more nearly to the Lepidoptera.

  35. The insects forming the order Trichoptera are well known in their larval condition, under the name of caddis worms.

  36. Then we thought that perhaps even a caddis would like a house a little bigger than a jam pot, or even than a big marmalade jar.

  37. As the Imp puts the caddis back into the water he sometimes sees a sudden stirring of the mud, as if someone had poked a pencil in and pulled it quickly out again, bringing a puff of fine sediment up into the water.

  38. For the bundle of sticks is really a log house that the caddis has built for itself.

  39. But while we watch something comes jerkily out of the end of the bundle--a black head and six busy legs, and soon the caddis is crawling along as fast as it can, dragging its house behind it.

  40. A hard winter doubtless commits sad havoc among the caddis and larvae at the bottom of the river; the trout, not being able to get much fly, are then compelled to fall back on the crustaceans.

  41. The best bait is the "rock worm," as it is called in Montana, which is the larva of a caddis fly encased in an artificial envelope of minute bits of stick, or grains of fine gravel.

  42. Colonel Corfe and Mr. Caddis declined to consider such conduct English, in a man of station.

  43. Among the larva, those of the Caddis fly should be kept in abundance, on account of the amusement afforded by their strange habits and their remarkable metamorphosis.

  44. In an aquarium, the caddis worms are very amusing, and since they thrive there, they are very suitable additions to the happy family.

  45. The only creature of the insect kind that I can recommend for general adoption is the caddis worm, a comical and interesting creature, that can never mar the beauty of the tank.

  46. Thus our Thames May-flies had gigantic prehistoric ancestors, which appeared on earth, possibly with their present associates the caddis flies, at an enormously remote age.

  47. Soon what look like sticks, but are caddis larva, begin to creep on the bottom.

  48. Caddis {38} worm can be more naturally reproduced with a common rubber band than any other way I know.

  49. Form a large head with the tying silk, fasten securely and you have a very realistic Caddis worm.

  50. How often have I tried to teach anglers that the May-fly does not come from a caddis worm; how often have I failed!

  51. You may count these caddis baits by hundreds of thousands; whether the trout eat them case and all, is a question in these streams.

  52. But minnows and small fry eat them by millions; and so do tadpoles, and perhaps caddis baits and water crickets.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caddis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.