Saturday, July 12, 2008

Godzilla Bug

Last night, we found a giant bug that looked like it came from one of the Godzilla movies. I have never seen anything like it. It was 4-1/2" long and had big pinchers on it. It took all of 3 minutes on the internet to ID it. It was a male Dobsonfly. The live for 2-3 years in the larval stage as a carnivorous worm in water, and then they hatch into the adult stage like this and have a few days to mate & lay eggs before they die.
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1 comment:

SCBrain said...

Pretty scary. Did you see the movie "Cloverfield"?