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A very large insect (Dobsonfly male)

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south east
by: Shane in sc

I found the same insect today dead. nowere near a stream thow..
Dobsonfly male
by: Moni

Kathy
You have a dobsonfly male on your window. I have seen the female (do not have the long pinchers) but not a male...how lucky you are!
The females do not have the long 'pinchers', but can bite or pinch more effectively than the males.
These insects are found near fast flowing streams so there must be one near by. The adults come to lights at night. Adults do not feed.
Larvae are aquatic predators, living in streams. Two-three years are spent in larval stage, at end of this time larvae crawl out of stream and form a pupal cell under a log, rock, etc. and then overwinter. Adults emerge spring to summer.
These are found thru out the eastern half of North America.
Here is more info on it if you want.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/4873
Insect
by: Audrey Howard

Not sure, but this looks very similar to an insect that I found up in the West Virginia mountains a couple of weeks ago. Cabin is near a good fishing stream. Insect is a member of the mayfly family....females are larger than the males...wing structure and veining is

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