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 ...

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.

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 ...