Watersnipe Fly (or Atherix)

• Carnivorous
• They can bite

• Up to two inches long
• Body is tapered at the head end
• Body has two feathery-like horns at the back end
• Soft, fleshy body
• Many pairs of caterpillar-like legs on the underside
• Tiny soft pairs of fleshy filaments extend from the top and sides of the body
• Pale to green in color

• carnivorous
• filament
• tapered