Dobsonfly

• Also known as a hellgramite
• Develop from one to four years
• Carnivorous and may bite

• One to four inches long
• Mouth has large, chewing pinchers
• Six segmented legs on middle section of body with tiny pinchers at the end of each
• Many fleshy, filamentous appendages on each side of the abdomen
• Back end is forked with two short tails and two hooks on each tail
• Gill tufts on the underside of the tail that look like "hairy armpits"
• Dark brown to black in color
• Often confused with fishfly but fishfly is smooth on underside with no gill tufts

• abdomen
• appendages
• carnivorous
• gill tufts
• segmented