Have you ever seen a stick walking around in a stream?
That's me, a stick caddis called Triplectides. As a young
insect, I hide my soft body inside hollow bits of stick. Sometimes I'll make a
home out of lots of small bits of plant or a collection of leaves. When I've
made my home, you won't know I'm there until you see my striped legs.
I live in slow-flowing streams, especially those in the bush
where there are lots of sticks falling into the stream. I can't survive in
streams that have lots of rubbish or other horrid stuff tipped into them. Some
people don't realise that when they wash cars on the road or tip things like
paint or oil down the grates on the road, it all ends up in my stream. This is
called pollution, and there are some streams that have such bad pollution, that
most stream creatures and fish can't live in those streams any more.
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