Caddisfly larvae. Native to the Northeast United States and in some areas they make some pretty crazy structures to protect themselves using glue on their backs and the surrounding environment. This one had a lot of sand to use.
Oh cool is that what it is?
We have them in the UK too but the [one I found looks really different!](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/u893w8wXvn)
I'd say that is far more common than op's, but its pretty cool how many different things they can use. I believe that each different species uses a different type of material/construction for their case.
Found a bunch that had built themselves cocoons made of small pebbles, looked like little pebble igloos. Pretty cool that they know to do that I order to avoid predation.
> they make some pretty crazy structures to protect themselves using glue on their backs and the surrounding environment.
Moth larvae are like that too, they build cocoons out of lint or anything they can find around them and then they crawl around sort of like an inchworm that stays half in its "shell", I found a couple of them in my bathroom once and it weirded me tf out. Had to spend forever googling random keywords to even figure out what they were but they're so surreal and weird the first time you see em...
Thank you! I was talking to this old lady next to me who was also looking at it and she’s pretty acquainted with the aquatic life in that pond and she had no idea what it was.
Ya, you've stumped all of my friends in Mass n fellow fishing folks. Ha! But see it appears it's been ID'd and will be checking out the links, etc. It's creepy, but cool, all the same. The creatures that we find in different places never cease to amaze me! And to think there's STILL many things man has yet to lay eyes on, and may never, deep in our oceans. 😳 Thanks for sharing n giving us something neat to learn about! 🙋♀️T
Caddisfly larvae. Native to the Northeast United States and in some areas they make some pretty crazy structures to protect themselves using glue on their backs and the surrounding environment. This one had a lot of sand to use.
Oh cool is that what it is? We have them in the UK too but the [one I found looks really different!](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/u893w8wXvn)
Lmao, I wonder if little dude regrets his disguise.
Awesome! The ones around me used mud.
I saw one of these in an icy pond in oregon, usa
I'd say that is far more common than op's, but its pretty cool how many different things they can use. I believe that each different species uses a different type of material/construction for their case.
I think Caddisfly larvae are the neatest micro invertebrates around, how cool!
They are really quite interesting!
Found a bunch that had built themselves cocoons made of small pebbles, looked like little pebble igloos. Pretty cool that they know to do that I order to avoid predation.
That’s so cool! Can you tell from the way it walks?
Partially but mainly because it’s looks like the substrate in the water, which they have a knack for doing. And your geologically in the right place
> they make some pretty crazy structures to protect themselves using glue on their backs and the surrounding environment. Moth larvae are like that too, they build cocoons out of lint or anything they can find around them and then they crawl around sort of like an inchworm that stays half in its "shell", I found a couple of them in my bathroom once and it weirded me tf out. Had to spend forever googling random keywords to even figure out what they were but they're so surreal and weird the first time you see em...
Where was this filmed? What kind of environment was this filmed in?
In a freshwater pond in western Massachusetts
Any connection to saltwater?
Nope not at all
Did you see where it went?
It was staying right by the shore of the pond
That trash bottle wrapper though. Ugh.
Yeah it sucks I live in a pretty clean area but the waters are getting more and more littered people are too cruel and uncaring for our earth
Triops longicaudatus? Or American tadpole shrimp that is covered in sand?
I’m really not sure of what it looks like beneath, so I can’t confirm.
A hash brown
Chicken nugget
What approx size was this?
Around the size of a US quarter
Whoa!!! 😳 That's WAAAAY smaller than we thought!! Ok...will pass it along to those I asked who live in Mass n other fishing friends.
Thank you! I was talking to this old lady next to me who was also looking at it and she’s pretty acquainted with the aquatic life in that pond and she had no idea what it was.
Ya, you've stumped all of my friends in Mass n fellow fishing folks. Ha! But see it appears it's been ID'd and will be checking out the links, etc. It's creepy, but cool, all the same. The creatures that we find in different places never cease to amaze me! And to think there's STILL many things man has yet to lay eyes on, and may never, deep in our oceans. 😳 Thanks for sharing n giving us something neat to learn about! 🙋♀️T
The way it's moving reminds me of a freshwater clam but it looks like a flatfish of some kind... How odd, I shall be lurking for answers.
With you, my first thought. Shape and movement is spot on
I thought scallop, am I crazy?
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Lol no
What ever it is it need it need water hope somebody helped it 😢😢😢
It’s in the water
Thank you 🥰
Dense
Looks like a chupa sangre.
Lookd like something pulled on a line
NASA: how’d that get around the ice wall?
Life finding a way.
That's Tony, he's an a-hole
It’s a computer mouse that escaped and learned the way of the sea
No this is Patrick
Whole grain Goldfish
Nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos, he who must not be seen.
Clam
It's sentient gravel. It's very rare but not unheard of ever since the reality Crack event of 1976. Lucky find on your part.
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Slipper lobster in freshwater?
I think they commented this before I mentioned it was in freshwater
bottom feeder
Frogfish I think.