Bugs...

My son has been working on a bug collection for school. This has been an endeavor to say the least. It is early spring and bug are just hatching out...at least a lot of the more interesting ones. Then there is the fact that some bugs look like other bugs but are not either one. Case in point...the Spring Fishfly. The Spring Fishfly looks like a Giant Lacewing...but with smaller eyes and non-clubbed antenna. It also looks like an Ant Lion..but with a shorter abdomen and thinner antenna. Its mouth is similar to the other two. They all used to be in the same Order...but now the Fishflys are in a separate order. It took me a couple of days to get to the bottom of that mystery. Behold: The Spring Fishfly!

And Yes it is almost two inches long!
KW