Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. "I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and ...

Dragonflies are famous for their extraordinary flying abilities, but their early lives are even stranger. Before growing ...

A dragonfly perched on a reed at dusk is not just waiting for the light to fade. It is hunting in wavelengths you cannot see. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered that ...

Many insects can fold their wings back over their bodies, but dragonflies and mayflies can’t. That shared quirk makes the two insects look like close relatives, yet scientists have long disagreed over ...

California is seeing an unusual surge in dragonflies, with large groups appearing over parks, ponds and farms after warm spring and early summer rain. The insects have been especially noticeable ...

When you think of a dragonfly, you may assume they belong to the fly family. However, despite what their name implies and the similarities shared between the two insects, dragonflies are not a type of ...

Dragonflies and damselflies have been flying across Earth for more than 200 million years. They appeared long before the dinosaurs and survived every mass extinction that followed. They have survived ...

Red dragonflies fly leisurely through the autumn sky. Looking at the twilight rice fields and the pampas grass swaying in the ...

A person shared his story about trying to grow a thriving garden on a small apartment patio in an urban desert environment, ...

According to a new Finnish study, different groups of insectivores compete for the same type of food. Researchers of the University of Turku, Finland, and the Finnish Museum of Natural History made a ...