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, ...

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 ...

Commenting on the update to the IUCN red list and the news that 16% of dragonfly species are at risk of extinction, Stuart Orr, WWF Global Freshwater Lead, said: “Today’s announcement about the global ...

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 ...

The National Science Foundation gave a $2.3 million grant distributed across five institutions to study the evolutionary aspects of dragonflies. BYU and the American Museum of Natural History were ...

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, ...

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Nigeria’s Cross River state, famed for its gorillas, chimpanzees, drill monkeys and forest elephants, is also part of an ecological region known to harbor the greatest diversity of dragonflies and ...

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

Green darners — big dragonflies, all splendid iridescent greens and blues — head for the coast in the fall. Across the state, they’re gathering along the Long Island Sound by the thousands. They’ll ...

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