Sunday, July 22, 2007

Fishfly

The same night I took the P. californicus below this handsome fellow came to admire our porch light. (Dad snapped this picture since the insect landed out of my reach.) It is probably a Neohermes californicus, a type of fishfly (family Coridalidae). This insect is quite long--at least three inches, not counting its antennae. The larvae are acquatic.

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