Hellgrammite Genus Corydalus (Dobsonflies)
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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
» Class Insecta (Insects)
» Order Megaloptera (Hellgrammites, Dobsonflies, and Alderflies)
» Family Corydalidae (Hellgrammites)
» Genus Corydalus (Dobsonflies)
3 species aren't included.
Common Name
| Match | Common Name |
 | Dobsonflies |
Fly Imitations by Orvis
| Stage | Fly Pattern |
| Larva | Franke Hellgrammite |
1 Hellgrammite Specimen in the Genus Corydalus:
Corydalus (Dobsonflies) Hellgrammite Larva
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View 27 PicturesRegion: Poconos
Collected May 29, 2007
Added Jun 4, 2007
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Hellgrammite hell 1 Reply »
Posted by Sprattoo on Jun 5, 2007
Last reply on Jun 5, 2007 by Wiflyfisher
The First time I saw one of these things was as a kid. We were playing around a woolen mill in old Kezar Falls Maine.
Turning over a damp old pile of wool revealed a number of adult Hellgrammites. At the age of 12 or 13 these were the scariest things I had ever seen.... still very intimidating. I remember trying to get them to bite sticks and my shoe... which they happily did once I started poking them.
Now at the age of thirty *mumble mumble* This insect has come into my life again.
After opening my little tackleshop and selling flies and gear for about a year, it was an embarrassment that I couldn't catch the Browns surfacing all over the place down on the river.
I finally got one by accident, cut open its belly and found... thats right... A dobsonfly nymph.
Although I believe they were really feeding on dragonfly or damselfly nymphs (as they were chasing and feeding near the top)
The story of my trouts belly told a different tale.
Some time at the tying bench, with a few pieces of yarn and marabou and now those old browns are no problem at all!
ReplyTurning over a damp old pile of wool revealed a number of adult Hellgrammites. At the age of 12 or 13 these were the scariest things I had ever seen.... still very intimidating. I remember trying to get them to bite sticks and my shoe... which they happily did once I started poking them.
Now at the age of thirty *mumble mumble* This insect has come into my life again.
After opening my little tackleshop and selling flies and gear for about a year, it was an embarrassment that I couldn't catch the Browns surfacing all over the place down on the river.
I finally got one by accident, cut open its belly and found... thats right... A dobsonfly nymph.
Although I believe they were really feeding on dragonfly or damselfly nymphs (as they were chasing and feeding near the top)
The story of my trouts belly told a different tale.
Some time at the tying bench, with a few pieces of yarn and marabou and now those old browns are no problem at all!
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