Today, we celebrate the dragonfly, the theme bug of this Saturday's BugFest at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences' BugFest is Saturday. The free festival, now in ...

The order Odonata, comprising dragonflies and damselflies, represents a group of insects whose diversity and dual aquatic‐terrestrial life cycle make them invaluable sentinels of environmental change.

Among its fascinating attributes, the Common Green Darner has compound eyes containing more than 30,000 simple eyes. There have been swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in recent ...

(CN) — A Europe-based wildlife conservation organization published a report Thursday that showed dragonflies and other freshwater-based species are threatened as wetlands continue to vanish across the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and several environmental groups have reached a legal settlement that could result in long-term protection of an endangered dragonfly on 13,000 acres of national ...

Germany is a hotspot for dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) species in Europe, owing to the range of habitats and climates that it provides. While many recent and mostly small-scale studies suggest ...

An extremely rare dragonfly, a federally endangered species known as a male Hine’s emerald dragonfly, was recently discovered ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...

Mosquitoes ruin everything. You step outside on a summer evening and all you end up doing is swatting, running around putting mosquito repellent patches on your kids, or finally just heading back in.

Not only are dragonflies fun to watch, but they are also very beneficial to your yard! These small aerial predators eat all kinds of insects, including some of the more “bothersome” ones like ...