Tag: Fishfly

124/150: Good Indicators of Water Quality, True Facts about the Fishfly

Oct 23, 2017

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by

Meredith Miller

in #Biodiversity150

Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Megaloptera: Corydalidae: Nigronia serricornis (Say 1824) Nigronia serricornis is neither a fish nor a fly, instead falling in the insect order Megaloptera (including both Fishflies, Alderflies and Dobsonflies or Hellgrammites). Females lay eggs in masses near open fast flowing water. Larvae are aquatic and predatory, feeding on insects and worms with their…