Found green caterpillar like critters, they use leaves to build housing like shleter and hide inside. Interesting they move with the leaves likes snail in its shell. I'm pretty sure it's some insect larve and trying my best to remove them. Quite easy to spot with their "special home"
Anyone has any idea what insect they might be and what's the next stage of the lifecyle, in case there are some hidden from sight.
The pictures are max zoom using iPhone. These are the few I fish out just before lights off. Will do more hunting tomorrow...
These are the caterpillars of a type of moth that has aquatic caterpillars. They can be quite destructive to plants, so I recommend removing them whenever you manage to find them.
Here's some general information about these moths that might be applicable to our local species:
http://www.ecospark.ca/changingcurrents/aquaticmoth
http://watermonitoring.uwex.edu/wav/...pidoptera.html
Small is beautiful.
That explains why my rotala been losing leaves, stripped bare lol. I kept thinking it was my water quality for the past week!
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