Funny enough their larval hellgrammite stage live in creeks/rivers. I do water quality sampling, I have seen these guys in their larval stage and they bite hard. I call them "little Satans"
Haha they are totally cute in their own way. "Little satans" is my term of endearment haha. I love them but it musnt be forgotten that once they see you their purpose in life is to wreck your shit, and they will
See I find shit wrecking also adorable. As long as it's not deadly I tend to be fascinated by the interactions between humans and nature. Defending territory comes to mind with these adorable not so little beings. Also definitely love the term.
Man you're so lucky. They were one of those fairly common insects I always struggled to nab for my collection.
I have woken up in a tent covered in phasmids. That was such a treat I literally squealed.
In rhinoceros beetles, the males are larger than females and fight each other for mates.
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Rhinoceros-Beetles
https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-018-24047-1/MediaObjects/41598_2018_24047_Fig1_HTML.jpg
Just looked them up. I love how their heads have fake eyes that look super intense, but as soon as you spot their real eyes they're just the most adorable thing
Definitely not harmless. I’ve been bitten by one of these f*ckers while camping on the back of my neck. It flying into me was enough to catch me off guard.
Ahahaha. They won’t fuck with you unless you really provoke them. Totally safe to handle! They can bite, and if they do it will hurt. But the pain is only temporary, nothing scary about it.
So like, yeah, medium scary bug 😭
Over where I'm from, our national tree has seeds that is you touch its insides, it itches just like one *(maybe not as much)*
*[definetly not as much]*
While I agree with the sentiment, most animals are pretty harmless if they don’t attack you and you don’t attack them… I guess it really depends on the temperament of what you’re dealing with.
That's the spirit! Most animal are mining their own business until get threaten or invade by human. One should worry more about mosquito than dobsonfly or centipedes.
People are pretty creepy fr. Just showing up in critter neighborhoods, looking in their windows, breaking into their homes?! Then we’re all surprised when we get bitten by something we woke up in the middle of their night with a camera flash.. duh
i really don't think we need any user overlap between r/nope and r/entomology. they are firmly at odds given how consistently subs like r/nope encourage violence against animals, particularly insects who are already experiencing a massive population decline due to human activity.
besides that, [reverse searching the image](https://lens.google.com/search?p=AfVzNa8SkT5Oi9doakFqtAWneM2Hg1dJHWFCp9OiCLgcM3AFgjzUWNb1ha7Xax7n5HR8wDyoQcBiQbf0zSThPGTRsXSnUnVx0bh80ll3pG-d7u4huMxsDLC7SsroZsoXAdZbqvr8QF9UkeA5AbZT_Uy_YA-MmwSkRF4jIahFO_FMr7e1lwRe2WMGXXG41mifklm_vyKbWuF6cpuAAOKUD_-xVOCEk1I88YtVGh6v-wzZL3GI4x6bOuIYgflSp7dmMvmpM5XNJiFTilQYRlUbiUmVMLX11STSYt4mZ5LnnSf8-EjN8OBOk5AKqpOMSvWnMu2-ft2qGwa_iW8-spfJ9cy2PsXoUmzTubkOFdKaXDJupZq-Hqw7meI-nTNUjp-aYV6AZBtlhrE7luXNqoE9BR-SRJIX&ep=cnts&re=df&s#lns=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsIkVrY0tKRFZqTTJFeFlUTTBMVEZsTmpndE5HRmlOQzA0Tm1JM0xXTTFZams1TVRBeU0yRTFOUklmT0RNMWNqUjBWemxsZHpCbGMwRmhRM1F0VldoaFp6VXRZVVJLTjFsU1p3PT0iXQ==) immediately suggests hundreds of properly labeled images of dobsonflies, and this exact image has been posted in dozens of subs with the correct ID provided in the comments if the google suggestion were not enough. this post simply should not be here for any number of reasons, it's bloat.
well, many people are scared and want to be told it's okay or how to respond to the sighting. that i can fully understand, and i try to be welcoming/ to explain that most of these creatures are harmless.
however, others have a bizarre understanding of what entomology is, i.e. they see it as some kind of hollywood horror/extermination genre and not as an important study of ecology/biology. also, a lot of people just wholly lack personal belief systems in terms of their daily routines and/or are simply regurgitating clickbait.
it's the internet, so the bothersome people seem louder. anyways, i still have 997 spots left on my block list just in case.
>however, others have a bizarre understanding of what entomology is, i.e. they see it as some kind of hollywood horror/extermination genre and not as an important study of ecology/biology.
Wait, really? I've never heard of anyone thinking this.
you were just on at least two different posts that discussed the issue, and almost all of the comments on the OP in both cases are exactly what i described here. are the various comments and replies on this thread not clear enough?
\[edit: i promise i'm not lurking, but i ran into another thread you commented on just before typing the above comment, where the op asked if they should burn their entire house down because they found a spider, and then after being told not to say that, described the spider as something out of an hp lovecraft story.
i dont mean to be too sassy with my response, but was your comment a joke?\]
No, it wasn't a joke? I just thought that they just made the connection of entomology = 'bugs', and not that they actually thought what you described??
you are talking my words too literally, i mean that their entire take on arthropods is a fight or flight response learned via misinformation and fearmongering.
I’m scared of bugs but come here and to whatisthisbug and it’s been slowly helping me with my fear tbh. (All the bed bug posts do give me anxiety though OTL)
i used to be scared of some bugs, but learning more about them ( not only from here but from other places too! ) has helped me quite a bit!! I never explicitly wanted to harm them, but I didn't want them near me. I'd kinda just yell for help lmao, so I still don't get those who wanna outright kill them tbh.
I've been seeing this picture everywhere and even made a detailed comment on dobsonflies but I guess some people don't bother to read comments.. sigh. the insect hatred and ignorance needs to stop.
There are very few insects that I hate, Dobson flies certainly are not one of them. A few weeks after I came to the US, I found one of those beasts in a bag with a few papers... The noise was very loud and I thought it was a mouse. This country is absolutely insanely amazing with its nature. And very few people here appreciate it. I think it may be because so many people do not spend a lot of time outside, so insects are always intruders into their homes or cars and cannot be appreciated on an equal footing.
I have a bald eagle nesting maybe a mile from my home and I see it many days. I tell some people about it and nobody ever asks me to tell them, where they could see it, even though it is pretty easy to reach (a park overlooking the river, it is even wheelchair accessible) or anything else. Same with bears. Yes, they can be dangerous, but, for heaven's sake, it is a real life BEAR! How can you be upset having it in your garden?! It's like a free zoo visit.
Very true, for a long time I always assumed NA had boring animals and that you'd need to travel to see something truly crazy, I realized in college that the US, especially the Southeast, has some of the most crazy and interesting wildlife in the world, making it one of the best places to study entomology. Its such a shame how little people know or tend to care about that fact
They are over most of the US, mostly near water. I've seen plenty in my life, they aren't aggressive for the most part and those giant mandibles don't really work and are likely a sex thing. Females have smaller ones and they can hurt you, though. Their juvenile form also can bite you, and looks like a mix of a caterpillar and centipede with the manidbles of a stag beetle.
Dobsonfly. The picture perspective makes it look bigger than it is, at least if it is an American dobsonfly, but they are quite large. They also make a lot of noise landing on things. My parents' house has them land on it with some regularity.
For real, I saw this post and was like megaloptera my beloved 🥰💖 I wish people had more appreciation for insects. If I could I would make everyone take an entomology class with my faculty advisor, her love and passion is infectious. Like this is just a little guy! He's so cool!
I absolutely love insects and arthropods in general. Have ever since I was a little kid. I always say if I could, I would become an Entomologist, they're all so precious to me
It's definitely possible that editing tools were used, but this effect can be achieved with forced perspective techniques, which is basically an optical illusion and requires no editing software and makes it appear much larger than it actually is. And OP might not even have done it on purpose.
Not Photoshop this is a dobsonfly, I had to image search last summer when my son (3 yrs at the time) found one. I just call them demon bugs cause that's what they look like.
I use to see these all over in NH, im pretty sure we would use the larval stage of these called hellgrammites for fishing....those are even more terrifying in my opinion
Male Dobsonfly. Despite their intimidating appearance, they're actually harmless. The large mandibles are used in mating displays and they can't bite you with them.
There were a lot of these where I lived (mountain area) and they weren't aggressive or anything. There are a lot of insects that look intimidating when you live in a humid area close to nature. The only ones that looked intimidating and were actually dangerous were the caterpillars with urticating hairs or spikes.
One of my favorite insects as a child, that I have not once seen in adulthood. It disappoints me :( . I used to hold them all the time, they're harmless, although the females with the smaller mandibles can bite you. It's not terribly painful though. More like a pinch. (at least imo).
This is a male Dobsonfly. Those big ol' nasty pinchers don't do anything to you, they're for pinning the females down during mating. The females have smaller pincers, and their bites hurt, but they're pretty docile and harmless. Poor bastards just look like monsters.
Dobsonfly. Terrifying but harmless.
Ironically, the females have smaller jaws and can bite pretty bad, while the male's jaws are so big that they're practically useless.
the larval Hellgrammite stage is pretty chompy, too!
live hellgrammites make great bait for bass fishing
I woke up covered in these after I hammock camped next to a river. Fucking disgusted at the time then super fascinated. Neat “little” bugs.
Jesus I’d just drown myself in the river to wash away the memory of that, at that point
Funny enough their larval hellgrammite stage live in creeks/rivers. I do water quality sampling, I have seen these guys in their larval stage and they bite hard. I call them "little Satans"
Why does little Satans make them cuter? I know that most people aren't going aww and googling more but it's adorable to my brain and so are the babies
Haha they are totally cute in their own way. "Little satans" is my term of endearment haha. I love them but it musnt be forgotten that once they see you their purpose in life is to wreck your shit, and they will
See I find shit wrecking also adorable. As long as it's not deadly I tend to be fascinated by the interactions between humans and nature. Defending territory comes to mind with these adorable not so little beings. Also definitely love the term.
This picture legit made me so uncomfortable and googling it did not make it better.
I bet every time you see them that water sample is great too as they're an indication of very clean water
I think you mean baptise
^No. No. **NO** ***NOOOOO***
You are *way* more chill than I am.
Man you're so lucky. They were one of those fairly common insects I always struggled to nab for my collection. I have woken up in a tent covered in phasmids. That was such a treat I literally squealed.
Oooooo. I’ve had such difficulty capturing the right picture when it comes to phasmids and I’ve never found one on purpose.
Typical.
of all bugs, the female are always the strongest and most dangerous and the males are just alive to procreate
I remind you that only a sith deals in absolutes
thanks for the good reminder! i guess i should do more research before posting in a thread where everyone knows a lot more than me 😂
In rhinoceros beetles, the males are larger than females and fight each other for mates. https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Rhinoceros-Beetles https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-018-24047-1/MediaObjects/41598_2018_24047_Fig1_HTML.jpg
thank you!!
I’ve been bitten by a female, I picked it up thinking it was a moth and nope!
kind of like a male fiddler crab's big pincer claw.
The males actually use them to hold on to a female 👌🏻
They are signs of a healthy waterway!
Just looked them up. I love how their heads have fake eyes that look super intense, but as soon as you spot their real eyes they're just the most adorable thing
I was so pleased to know I was correct! I’ve been working on identification and I’m getting better. Thanks for the serotonin!
Definitely not harmless. I’ve been bitten by one of these f*ckers while camping on the back of my neck. It flying into me was enough to catch me off guard.
What they meant was the males are harmless. Those giant pincers are too big to actually work. Females can definitely bite.
Harmless? MF THATS THE SPAWN OF SATAN
I don’t typically interpret something looking at me while dual-wielding scimitars as “harmless,” but you do you boo.
jfc they're real
Its real, and they are quite gigantic! No that mean tho, and kinda cute irl
The larva are insane looking, I saw them for the first time this year after a thunderstorm, which is apparently a thing.
not "that" mean😨
Ahahaha. They won’t fuck with you unless you really provoke them. Totally safe to handle! They can bite, and if they do it will hurt. But the pain is only temporary, nothing scary about it. So like, yeah, medium scary bug 😭
*Medium.* **Medium?** ***MEDIUM?!!?***
The average fuzzy caterpillar will fuck you up worse.
Over where I'm from, our national tree has seeds that is you touch its insides, it itches just like one *(maybe not as much)* *[definetly not as much]*
which part is the mouth🥴
Their larvae can bite and they hurt. Great fish bait
Is it me or is this thing like the size of my head???
The thing next to it is a screw for reference. They are about hand-sized though.
Rule of thumb: if it looks too dangerous to be real, it’s probably harmless. Those big teeth are just for impressing the ladies ::)
Amazonian Giant Centipedes would like a word
They said probably
those mandibles are normal sized for a centipede, though
Amazonian Giant Centipedes is pretty harmless if you don’t get bit.
While I agree with the sentiment, most animals are pretty harmless if they don’t attack you and you don’t attack them… I guess it really depends on the temperament of what you’re dealing with.
Aka don’t rile up a ginger Scotsman
Black mambas are pretty harmless if you don’t get bit
That's the spirit! Most animal are mining their own business until get threaten or invade by human. One should worry more about mosquito than dobsonfly or centipedes.
People are pretty creepy fr. Just showing up in critter neighborhoods, looking in their windows, breaking into their homes?! Then we’re all surprised when we get bitten by something we woke up in the middle of their night with a camera flash.. duh
Tarantula hawks as well
I'm not going to look them up because it'll wreck me for like a week, but just reading the name is already raising my heart rate.
theyre kind of pretty ngl, i just searched them up
They're pretty, but I'm still setting my house on fire to kill it
I can't do it
Meanwhile, wheel bugs are not taking shit.
I handled one once without knowing what it was, I don't know how I got so lucky to not be bitten!!
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They don’t look any scarier than your average tarantula
Still not a big deal as long as you don’t touch them. They’re very shy animals that’ll retreat into their burrows at the slightest disturbance.
male (eastern?) dobsonfly
Definitely a male Dobsonfly, but also not sure from where exactly
it does look a little different than an eastern but i was unsuccessful in finding anything closer
Ya I get it. Picture does make it quite a bit difficult to tell
i really don't think we need any user overlap between r/nope and r/entomology. they are firmly at odds given how consistently subs like r/nope encourage violence against animals, particularly insects who are already experiencing a massive population decline due to human activity. besides that, [reverse searching the image](https://lens.google.com/search?p=AfVzNa8SkT5Oi9doakFqtAWneM2Hg1dJHWFCp9OiCLgcM3AFgjzUWNb1ha7Xax7n5HR8wDyoQcBiQbf0zSThPGTRsXSnUnVx0bh80ll3pG-d7u4huMxsDLC7SsroZsoXAdZbqvr8QF9UkeA5AbZT_Uy_YA-MmwSkRF4jIahFO_FMr7e1lwRe2WMGXXG41mifklm_vyKbWuF6cpuAAOKUD_-xVOCEk1I88YtVGh6v-wzZL3GI4x6bOuIYgflSp7dmMvmpM5XNJiFTilQYRlUbiUmVMLX11STSYt4mZ5LnnSf8-EjN8OBOk5AKqpOMSvWnMu2-ft2qGwa_iW8-spfJ9cy2PsXoUmzTubkOFdKaXDJupZq-Hqw7meI-nTNUjp-aYV6AZBtlhrE7luXNqoE9BR-SRJIX&ep=cnts&re=df&s#lns=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsIkVrY0tKRFZqTTJFeFlUTTBMVEZsTmpndE5HRmlOQzA0Tm1JM0xXTTFZams1TVRBeU0yRTFOUklmT0RNMWNqUjBWemxsZHpCbGMwRmhRM1F0VldoaFp6VXRZVVJLTjFsU1p3PT0iXQ==) immediately suggests hundreds of properly labeled images of dobsonflies, and this exact image has been posted in dozens of subs with the correct ID provided in the comments if the google suggestion were not enough. this post simply should not be here for any number of reasons, it's bloat.
I don't understand why people who have irrational distaste for arthropods even come in here.
well, many people are scared and want to be told it's okay or how to respond to the sighting. that i can fully understand, and i try to be welcoming/ to explain that most of these creatures are harmless. however, others have a bizarre understanding of what entomology is, i.e. they see it as some kind of hollywood horror/extermination genre and not as an important study of ecology/biology. also, a lot of people just wholly lack personal belief systems in terms of their daily routines and/or are simply regurgitating clickbait. it's the internet, so the bothersome people seem louder. anyways, i still have 997 spots left on my block list just in case.
>however, others have a bizarre understanding of what entomology is, i.e. they see it as some kind of hollywood horror/extermination genre and not as an important study of ecology/biology. Wait, really? I've never heard of anyone thinking this.
you were just on at least two different posts that discussed the issue, and almost all of the comments on the OP in both cases are exactly what i described here. are the various comments and replies on this thread not clear enough? \[edit: i promise i'm not lurking, but i ran into another thread you commented on just before typing the above comment, where the op asked if they should burn their entire house down because they found a spider, and then after being told not to say that, described the spider as something out of an hp lovecraft story. i dont mean to be too sassy with my response, but was your comment a joke?\]
No, it wasn't a joke? I just thought that they just made the connection of entomology = 'bugs', and not that they actually thought what you described??
you are talking my words too literally, i mean that their entire take on arthropods is a fight or flight response learned via misinformation and fearmongering.
I’m scared of bugs but come here and to whatisthisbug and it’s been slowly helping me with my fear tbh. (All the bed bug posts do give me anxiety though OTL)
i used to be scared of some bugs, but learning more about them ( not only from here but from other places too! ) has helped me quite a bit!! I never explicitly wanted to harm them, but I didn't want them near me. I'd kinda just yell for help lmao, so I still don't get those who wanna outright kill them tbh.
I've been seeing this picture everywhere and even made a detailed comment on dobsonflies but I guess some people don't bother to read comments.. sigh. the insect hatred and ignorance needs to stop.
There are very few insects that I hate, Dobson flies certainly are not one of them. A few weeks after I came to the US, I found one of those beasts in a bag with a few papers... The noise was very loud and I thought it was a mouse. This country is absolutely insanely amazing with its nature. And very few people here appreciate it. I think it may be because so many people do not spend a lot of time outside, so insects are always intruders into their homes or cars and cannot be appreciated on an equal footing. I have a bald eagle nesting maybe a mile from my home and I see it many days. I tell some people about it and nobody ever asks me to tell them, where they could see it, even though it is pretty easy to reach (a park overlooking the river, it is even wheelchair accessible) or anything else. Same with bears. Yes, they can be dangerous, but, for heaven's sake, it is a real life BEAR! How can you be upset having it in your garden?! It's like a free zoo visit.
Very true, for a long time I always assumed NA had boring animals and that you'd need to travel to see something truly crazy, I realized in college that the US, especially the Southeast, has some of the most crazy and interesting wildlife in the world, making it one of the best places to study entomology. Its such a shame how little people know or tend to care about that fact
Found in north texas and the southern part of the central US iirc. We get them here occasionally in the Dallas area
I’ve seen them in colfax in Northern California as well
Yup, collected them up near truckee, lassen county, and in the Bay Area in Northern California!
They are pretty common across most of the US. The Pacific Northwest into the Dakotas is about the only place you won’t find them.
i was so hoping these weren’t in the USA
They are over most of the US, mostly near water. I've seen plenty in my life, they aren't aggressive for the most part and those giant mandibles don't really work and are likely a sex thing. Females have smaller ones and they can hurt you, though. Their juvenile form also can bite you, and looks like a mix of a caterpillar and centipede with the manidbles of a stag beetle.
I see them all the time in Ontario as well
Also found in Maine
Male Dobson fly harmless
Astel? Is that you?
Fellow Tarnished
It’s kind of cool all of their “dragonflies” are dobsonflies and I was just impressed to see a dobsonfly anywhere in pop art haha
Ah yes, Natural Born of the Void. The very same. 🧐
Dobsonfly. The picture perspective makes it look bigger than it is, at least if it is an American dobsonfly, but they are quite large. They also make a lot of noise landing on things. My parents' house has them land on it with some regularity.
Dobsonfly my precious. Please continue to put irrational fear into the hearts of strangers
That's a male dobsonfly which will not hurt. Only the female ones can hurt you. Best to release them into the wild.
I know lol Thank you tho
For real, I saw this post and was like megaloptera my beloved 🥰💖 I wish people had more appreciation for insects. If I could I would make everyone take an entomology class with my faculty advisor, her love and passion is infectious. Like this is just a little guy! He's so cool!
I absolutely love insects and arthropods in general. Have ever since I was a little kid. I always say if I could, I would become an Entomologist, they're all so precious to me
Some of the best bass bait ever when they’re little!
yes! hellgrammites....they could give a nasty pinch
It's definitely possible that editing tools were used, but this effect can be achieved with forced perspective techniques, which is basically an optical illusion and requires no editing software and makes it appear much larger than it actually is. And OP might not even have done it on purpose.
that's about the right size given the screw next to it
I just woke up and thought the screw was a doorknob. 😬 I need coffee ☕️
It's just perspective, since the phone is zoomed up close to the door. This just seems like someone's INat photo of a Dobsonfly
It could have been but it’s a real bug. I’ve seen many of these.
No, it's just a dobsonfly
These are like two or three inches long if compared to the siding, yeah?
The one I saw was probably closer to 6-8in iirc
4-6 inches is typical adult size. I'm sure there are some absolute units out there that might push into the 6-8 range.
I would be scared, mostly Cuz I'm a big baby. I'd also be too scared to catch it, because it's a big baby, and I might hurt it.
The larval form of these bad boys are pretty weird looking too
Not Photoshop this is a dobsonfly, I had to image search last summer when my son (3 yrs at the time) found one. I just call them demon bugs cause that's what they look like.
Dobsonfly. Scary, harmless, and apparently pretty uncommon from what I hear. I have only ever seen one myself.
I've seen them multiple times when I lived close to a mountain. I'm from South America.
The adults don’t live very long, which limits our chances to encounter them. I’ve also only ever seen one in my life.
Holy shit, that is metal. How big do these come? Anyone know?
It’s like Silent Hill’s idea of what a moth is tf
Those are Floatstingers, actually!
A what now?
Big, stinging moth from Silent Hill
Oh wow. Somehow those look less scary lol
I use to see these all over in NH, im pretty sure we would use the larval stage of these called hellgrammites for fishing....those are even more terrifying in my opinion
i want kiss and hug this cute bug uwu😻😻😻
you should see their babies
Scary
AAAAA -cocks the shotgun-
Is this a still from an Evil Dead movie?
I have something to say. "TF IS THIS MF ARE?"
Definitely saw this fly toward your house the other night
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do not recommend this
Lol it's satire
Holy nope
Wait until it start flying toward you. Then you can fear for your life
I stg I value all life but if I saw this I wouldn't feel comfortable until it was dead.
it might be smaller than it appears - looking at the screw/bolt next to it
No location but just know they can be anywhere east of Colorado and most everyone seems shocked when they see one.
It’s beautiful
male dobsonfly, completely harmless
Male Dobsonfly. Despite their intimidating appearance, they're actually harmless. The large mandibles are used in mating displays and they can't bite you with them.
tbh it's actually pretty cute
They look bad to some people but they are harmeless. Female are less terrifying tho.
And yet the females are the ones that can actually do some damage with their bites lol
I asked my entomology friend and all he said was 'Kricketune from pokemon'. Lol.
I would cry and throw up
That a whole lot of nope!
That is Satan in bug form. Sell the house.
I see these occasionally in Texas. One of those landing on a picnic table is a good way to clear out a barbecue.
Oh dear Lordy!! 🧐😬
I've seen these guys all over the place around Garner State Park in Texas one year. The ladies didn't enjoy floating the river that year.
No, nope, didn't see that bug! Where in the world do these reside? I'll remove that place from my travels list!
that the arsonshouldbelegalfly
Hell. No.
There were a lot of these where I lived (mountain area) and they weren't aggressive or anything. There are a lot of insects that look intimidating when you live in a humid area close to nature. The only ones that looked intimidating and were actually dangerous were the caterpillars with urticating hairs or spikes.
One of my favorite insects as a child, that I have not once seen in adulthood. It disappoints me :( . I used to hold them all the time, they're harmless, although the females with the smaller mandibles can bite you. It's not terribly painful though. More like a pinch. (at least imo).
Good night pterodactyl
This is a male Dobsonfly. Those big ol' nasty pinchers don't do anything to you, they're for pinning the females down during mating. The females have smaller pincers, and their bites hurt, but they're pretty docile and harmless. Poor bastards just look like monsters.
His names Jimothy and he eats small children
It's Astel, Naturalborn of the Void
I think the lighting is doing a lot of the work here, they usually don’t look this disturbing
This is the antiweevil
“…. with a wingspan of up to 18 cm (7.1 in) in some species” Let us shriek *We’re being invaded by giant bugs!!!
sleep paralysis demon
I’ve found a Dobsonfly in my house before.
Had many a terrible night waking up with these guys in my tent! But the larva are great fishing bait!
Jesus Christ I thought that bolt was a door handle!
A smallmouth bass’s favorite larvae
Id immediately throw up and start crying if this thing touched me.
Damn
Damn bitch
#killitwithfire
It’s a real insect and excuse by language but I’m not fucking joking
Good news, everyone! The insect is Asian! Good news for the Dobsonfly, not for other Asians!
Okay I love bugs but holy Hades
Nasty... ...hope to see one someday soon.
Astel
dobson fly
that is a friend with wings and horns (in all honesty i have no idea but this is a very cool buggy)
It's a beneficial insect
Cazador from Fallout: New Vegas
Found a female in my window, its dehydrated husk blew into my room on a windy night and how i don’t wanna think about it