Lots of people say I'm the scariest looking insect found in our streams...
I'm certainly the biggest stream insect and I could give you a painful bite
if you annoy me. I'm a young insect called a dobsonfly or Archichauliodes and I
live in stony streams. Some people also call me the toe-biter so you'd better
wear shoes or boots if you walk around in my stream!
You might think I'm a kind of centipede because it looks like I have a lot
more than the six legs that insects are supposed to have. Most of the things
sticking out of my sides are gills though, not legs. I breathe in the water
through my gills, and I move around with the six legs just behind my head. I
live in streams with clean water because they have lots of other insects, and
these insects are what I eat.
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