What bug is this?

Anyone ever get pinched by a helgrammite ? A local outdoor TV personality had a "friend" tell him to "grab" one out of the bait box ...there was much blood..
They had a mass emergence on July 4th last year and I was attaching them to my relatives when they weren't looking, down by the river :P They are a Neuroptera, like a lace wings, ant lions, owl flies, and mantisflies. members of this order have a ladder like formation of veins on the outside of their wings.

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Check out the ladder formations on the outside of these wings
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This little guy was one of many trying to eat the tires on my trailer in Missouri the other day. He is roughly 4 inches long and one inch thick. What is he?
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Thanks. I had seen a Cicada Killer last year and that thing freaked me out. I wouldn't have guessed Cicada but I think you are right.
 
Cicada is the ticket man they can be a pain so damn loud ,also they love to fly as fast as they can right at your face .
 
Cicadas can't bite! You can pick 'em up and chuck 'em at your enemies!
 
Cicadas can't bite! You can pick 'em up and chuck 'em at your enemies!

I just read that they will bite if they think you are a tree and they try to get sap out of you.:D
As big as they are, you could hurt someone with one.:thumbup:
 
That frickin thing is ugly! I think it would scare the fish away! I never seen one of those before.
Cicada killers fly around my house all the time. They never bother me, but the wife is scared to death of them. I read somewhere they can sting, but they rarely do if you don't bother them. To me they look like a AA battery with wings flying around. lol
 
Man you guys have some ugly bugs. The original OP's photo looks like someone strapped some wings to a shrimp.
 
This is awesome! Years ago while driving late night near Canyon Lake, TX., I stopped at a gas station. One of these lay freshly dead on the tarmac. I'd never seen anything like it; HUGE, weird, and scary looking. I've always wondered what kind of bug it was, but no one ever had an idea from my descriptions.

So Dobsonfly it is. a quick google images search came up with this picture:
http://naturescrusaders.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/dobson-fly-in-hand.jpg
This picture is damn near like I had taken a picture of the one I found years ago. Now I know.

thanks,
lukus

I just returned from vacation on Canyon Lake, TX. I love it down there...
 
I see one or two every summer, they're usually dead or dying and very docile, however, they can bite, much like the larvae.

Female, July 2010.

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We always called them monsterbugs around here.

Knew they were grown up helgamites but didn't know there tecnical name.
 
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