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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Alderflies, Dobsonflies, and Fishflies (Megaloptera) » Dobsonflies and Fishflies (Corydalidae) » Fishflies (Chauliodes) » Summer Fishfly (Chauliodes pectinicornis)
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Who is eating whom? - Chauliodes pectinicornis
Copyright © 2005 Jim Kramer

Who is eating whom? - Chauliodes pectinicornis
Efland, NC USA, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
June 6, 2005
Size: fly ~3"
Any idea who is eating whom? Sorry about the picture quality the ladder was a bit wobbly.

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Contributed by Jim Kramer on 7 June, 2005 - 6:14pm
Last updated 13 July, 2005 - 6:21am

Spider is the eater, fishfly is the food
Your spider is the predator here. The large, scary-looking insect is a fishfly, Chauliodes pectinicornis, and has become a spider meal. Fishflies eat little, if anything as adults, and are incapable of attacking any other insects, though they might grapple with each other during mating.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 7 June, 2005 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks for the ID; any ideas on the spider? I was a little surprised at the size difference. Most spiders I’ve watched would cut something that large (relatively) free and try for another. The only thing even close was a green lynx eating a bumble bee. http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/Lynx_Spider.htm
Jim
… Jim Kramer, 7 June, 2005 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

 
You should see my black widow
I have a widow (L.hesperes) that is quite fearless. Nothing makes her fat and happy like an adult broad winged katydid (three or four times her size and quite strong). She'll lunge at the thing and hold on until she has it secured in her silk, no matter how much of a fight it puts up. I've entertained a number of friends with my little bug rodeo.
… Chad C Davis, 9 June, 2005 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

 
No ideas on spider
I've no ideas on the spider--I only know a very few, such as the Green Lynx you mentioned.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 8 June, 2005 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

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