Old black-and-white monster movies often featured giant spiders or ants rampaging through the countryside. Think of this story as a reality version of “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” Attack of the ...

Dobsonflies are a species of insect that lives in and around bodies of moving water like rivers and streams. They’re large, with a wingspan of around 5 inches. Dobsonflies spend most of their life as ...

I grew up in a small town located on the banks of the Mississippi River. Being so close to water, aquatic insects were commonplace. At times, they were actually a nuisance. I remember the year they ...

Claim to fame: The eastern dobsonfly is a very obvious insect that has a not-so-obvious connection with one of the Ozarks’ favorite pastimes — fishing. Sightings of this creature, one of the larger ...

The world’s largest flying aquatic insect, with huge, nightmarish pincers, has been discovered in China’s Sichuan province, experts say. According to the Insect Museum of West China, local villagers ...

Researchers in China have discovered what can be described as the most largest bug ever to be found alive. It is also probably the most frightening insect ever since it has snake-like fangs and an 8.3 ...

An annual sign of the arrival of summer, it happens slowly, and seemingly overnight. Along the course of the river, curious little white blotches appear on box elder and sycamore leaves, on the ...

The jet-black aquatic bug sports an impressive wingspan of over eight inches wide, easily large enough to wrap around and engulf an adult human face. The insect's shocking wingspan topped the previous ...

The world's largest flying aquatic insect with enormous pincers has been discovered in China's Sichuan provice. According to the Insect Museum of West China, local villagers from the outskirts of ...