Talk:Dobsonfly

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Dobsonflies have large, powerful jaws, strong enough even to draw blood from humans. Despite the fact that the males' mandibles are much bigger than the females', they are unable to harm humans.

Anyone else think this is a contradiction? --131.123.86.200 01:11, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes and no; the larvae can draw blood; but the adult males have large mandibles that look fierce but are harmless; off the top of my head I don't know if adult females can draw blood; clarification needed in the article.Dmccabe 02:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

"Hellgrammites" needs to be disambiguated; they're not just a DC supervillian...!

[edit] Female picture needed

I don't know if anybody still keeps track of this article, but if possible it would be nice to upload a public domain picture of a female dobsonfly to illustrate the different mandible form. I tried to get some but for some reason all of the pictures turned out blurry. The Behnam 18:38, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why...

are they called hellgrammites? --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 04:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)