Actually, megaloptera is the insect order that includes fishflies, alderflies, and this column's insect horror star, the dobsonfly. To be specific, I am writing about the eastern dobsonfly ...

Claim to fame: The eastern dobsonfly is a very obvious insect that has a not-so-obvious connection with one of the Ozarks’ favorite pastimes — fishing. Sightings of this creature, one of the ...

Several of these odd critters were examined by the museum and found to be unusually large specimens of the giant dobsonfly, which is native to China and Vietnam. The largest one measured 21 ...

Muhlenberg College biology professor Marten Edwards took this photo of a dobsonfly larva in Costa Rica. As adults, they live on land, growing wings for the last, shortest portion of their lives.

Several of these odd critters were examined by the museum and found to be unusually large specimens of the giant dobsonfly, which is native to China and Vietnam. The largest one measured 21 ...

Experts from the Insect Museum of West China identified the record-breaking bug as an unusually large specimen of giant dobsonfly. Found in the Sichuan province of China, the horrifying insect is ...

Several of these odd critters were examined by the museum and found to be unusually large specimens of the giant dobsonfly, which is native to China and Vietnam. The largest one measured 21 ...

(These pincers are technically called mandibles.) I learned that this critter was known as the dobsonfly. I don’t know how many years it has been since I last encountered one of these unusual ...

Entomologists say the presence of the giant dobsonfly, native to China and Vietnam, is an indication of clean water nearby. According to CNN, the aquatic critters are "highly sensitive to any ...

Several of the insects were examined by experts at the museum and were found to be unusually large specimens of the giant dobsonfly. A type of Megaloptera, there are over 220 species of ...