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Summer fishfly
Chauliodes pectinicornis
The summer fishfly is a big, soft insect with long wings folded over its back like a roof. It lives in the eastern part of North America. Its babies grow up in the water before they turn into flying grown-ups.
Lives in
Eastern Canada and the United States, from Maine down to Florida and west to Kansas
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle insect that does not sting.
What does it eat?
Fishfly larvae grow up in the water and hunt small water animals there.
How fast is it?
Summer fishfly about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The famous scientist Carl Linnaeus described it way back in 1763.
2
A tiny larva of another insect can live its whole life riding on the fishfly's back, and even turns into a pupa there.
3
Over the years it has been given at least five different scientific names.
you asked
Most asked questions about Summer fishfly
?Where does the summer fishfly live?
In eastern Canada and the United States, near water.
?Is the summer fishfly dangerous?
No, it is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chauliodes pectinicornis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1763
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Corydalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Megaloptera > Corydalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Chauliodes pectinicornis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Observation.org , a global biodiversity recording project.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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