Alderfly Larva

• Carnivorous and may bite
• Develop over period of one to three years
• May be light colored

• Mouth has large, chewing pinchers
• Smooth underside without gill tufts
• Abdomen has strand-like appendages extending from each side
• Three pairs of segmented legs on middle section of body with tiny pinchers at the end of each
• Straight, single feathery tail

• abdomen
• appendages
• carnivorous
• gill tufts
• segmented