Can anyone tell me what this is?

[Doug Yanega]

>http://www.actionvideoproductions.com/BUG.jpg
>
>Its about 6 or 7 inches total length.  Found in Greenville, SC.

It's a male dobsonfly, Corydalus cornutus. Fierce-looking, but 
harmless. The larvae are aquatic predators, called "hellgrammites".
-- 

Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
            http://entmuseum9.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82

 
 ------------------------------------------------------------ 

   For subscription and related information about LEPS-L visit:

   http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/lepsl