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. 2020 Apr 20;27(18):22380–22389. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-08790-5

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Caddis case cracker used to assess caddisfly case stability. We placed each case on top of two metal plates standing on edge (width 2 mm) and cracked each case by filling sand into the bucket that was connected to the lever arm. F1 is the force at the position of the bucket while F2 is the force that we needed to break each case