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Most people know the caddisfly as the artificial bug on fly fishing lures. But few know that these real caddiesflies spin an adhesive silk underwater to build nets to capture food and build protective shelter.
and physics at Arizona State university and author of a study in Biomacromolecules that examined caddisfly silk.
They found that at the molecular level caddisfly silk differs greatly from other terrestrial spun silks such as those from spiders or silkworms.
Caddisfly silk is phosphoratelated meaning that after the amino acid chain that makes up the silk is created phosphate molecules bond to the chain.
These mainly include representatives of the stoneflies mayflies caddisflies and dragonflies and are important members of the food chain right up to fish and birds.
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