A. It would be foolhardy and presumptuous of me to attempt to identify your caddisfly from what you've told me. Glenn Wiggins, the author of the best taxonomic work on caddisflies, says that there are about 1400 species of caddisflies identified in North America, so you can see why I'm reluctant to hazardous even a guess to family level from your brief description. However, I'd be willing to help you get your caddis identified if you want to pursue it. One way would be for me to give you the name of someone who could do it who lives reasonably close to you. I'm guessing from your screen name that Wv means West Virginia. If you want me to do that, please confirm this and I'll try to come up with the name of a colleague you could contact. Or I'd be willing to identify it (to family and genus, but not species) for you if you want to send me some preserved specimens. In that case, they would need to be sent in glass vials in 70% alcohol. If you want to pursue either of these, contact me directly (streamdoctor@aol.com) for the appropriate name or better instructions on how to send the specimens.

You also ask when they will hatch, but again, I couldn't do this unless I knew more about its identification.