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Giant winged insect with pinchers (Dobsonfly male)

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Dobsonfly
by: Moni

Jeff
As mentioned, they are drawn to the bright lights of gas stations.
BIg One!!
by: Jeff Fanjoy

I just found one today. Never seen such a bug! It was at my local gas station in Corinna Maine. Is this normal? Iv lived here my whole life.....29 years. caught me by surprise hahahaha1
Dobsonfly
by: Moni

Priscilla
Thanks for taking the time to look up the big insect you found. Yes they do occur in Indiana. While growing up in IN, I did not find one,but I did not live very close to water sources (where the young live) and we did not have a big light nearby that draws them to places like gas stations.
Great find!
We found one here!
by: Priscilla

We were trying to find what this huge bug was when we found it on the ground at a gasstation here in indiana. Thank you now we know what it its!
Dobsonfly
by: Moni

Joe
Yes, dobsonflies do occur in Colorado.
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Thanks
Caught by surprize!
by: Joe

I got one of these bugs with big pinchers caught in my hair. It looks alot like this Dobsonfly, only it's about 2 inches long and seems to have a longer, more slender body. Do these things grow in Colorado? I have a picture, But I don't know how to submit it.
Dobsonfly male
by: Moni

David
Wow! What a find! I want to see one too! Have seen female here but not the male.
Your photo is of a dobsonfly male. 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.
I am jealous!

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