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.

Dragonflies, often seen flitting gracefully above ponds and waterways, are not merely aesthetic wonders; they are crucial sentinels of our freshwater ecosystems. A recent assessment by a team of ...

(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 ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: Hine's emerald dragonflies have slender, metallic bodies with green, brown, or black coloring. Two distinct yellow lateral strips mark their thorax and fade into white as the dragonflies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mahendra Singh Limbu was retracing his steps up the Mewa Khola in 2018 when he and fellow lepidopterist Karen Conniff saw what looked like a new species of dragonfly sunning itself on a leaf. It was a ...