Dobsonfly

Beliez 1995Syria 1982
Dobsonfly
Corydalis cornutus
(Corydalidae)
Dobsonfly
Sp. indet.
(Corydalidae)


Although the dobsonfly has stopped at a trunk, a big stone, etc. of the tree near the waterside with the large-sized insect daytime, it is nocturnal and flocks in lamplight in many cases. Although only a head is hard although big feather and the body are soft, and it is short, it has a strong large jaw. If the body is caught by hand carelessly, a jaw will be bent and it will bite. Since the power of a large jaw is strong, the skin will be bit off simply. It is just a snake dragonfly. Since an abdomen is very soft, it will be shrunk a mere shadow of its self with drying.
The tracheal gill which whose larva of a dobsonfly is a long and slender big insect which lives underwater, and has a paragraph respectively like a pair of thread in the abdominal both sides of Section 1 to 8 ,there are gills. It is hiding in the bottom of a stone etc. and other living-in-water insects etc. are preyed by the mighty large jaw. A cocoon is not built, although it will come out of water, it will go into the bottom of a nearby stone etc. and the room will be built and putated there, if it ripens. Since a large jaw of puta moves freely, puta also bites.

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