The Wisconsin Dragonfly Society is a statewide organization that aims to educate people on the aquatic nature of dragonflies, by assisting in citizen science activities involving the insects, ...

Summer means even more warmer weather and the potential increase in mosquito activity. Dragonflies to the rescue, experts say. Mosquito season begins in March or April and could go into October, ...

Infrared-spectrum image of an ornamented dragonfly from the genus Tramea. Lighter colors indicate hotter temperatures, ranging from 27 to 35 degrees Celsius across the image. Image: Noah Leith.

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...

To catch a dragonfly in a net, the best strategy is to approach from below and move swiftly, according to BYU biology graduate student Natalie Saxton. “You kind of just have to swing as fast as you ...

In the past few months, two dragonfly species have been documented for the first time in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The little blue dragonlet (Erythrodiplax miniscula) and the calico pennant ...

The Eastern pondhawk is one of many commonly occurring dragonflies in Texas. The females are a bright neon green. Dragonflies, also known as mosquitohawks, snake doctors and devil’s darning needles, ...

Where in Texas is it possible to find 100 kinds of dragonflies? The answer is the Lower Rio Grande Valley, where dragonflies rate their very own festival. Like the many Texas festivals for birds and ...

Brookfield Zoo joined the Lincoln Park Zoo and Shedd Aquarium in raising a total of 90 mudbugs, which were recently released in the DuPage County Forest Preserve District. The mudbugs create burrows ...

Would a single insect wing be able to change the history of the prehistoric past? In the Dinosaur Provincial Park, also known as a treasures trove of fossils of the mighty dinosaurs, a McGill ...

Over the past 35 years, there have been large shifts in the distributions of many dragonfly species in Germany. Those of standing water habitats have declined, probably due to loss of habitat. Running ...