Dragonfly larvae sampled from Cape Cod and Minuteman National Historical Park recently helped tell a much bigger story about mercury pollution in the U.S. A national study published this week in the ...

Mosquitoes and blackflies are among nature’s most obnoxious insects — known for relentlessly biting and buzzing around your head with little to no mercy. However, one TikToker just discovered a ...

As one of the first-ever evolved winged insects, dragonflies have inhabited the earth for almost 300 million years. We instantly recognize these animals by their beautiful outer appearance and their ...

Ryan Utz says his recent paper on dragonflies, published in the journal American Midland Naturalist, came about as a result of a happy accident. “We turned up some data that we weren’t intending to ...

(a) Number of observation records per 500-m elevational band. (b) Number of genera and the number of their observation records in the database. (c) Cumulative number of observation records of each ...

Once prevalent in peat bogs across Britain, the distinctive white-faced darter dragonfly’s known population in England had until recently been diminished to just five isolated patches of surviving ...

We might dismiss dragonflies as colorful bugs flying in rapid twists and turns over a quiet pond under the scorching summer sun. But take a moment to watch these enchanting dragonflies. And be ...

A common green darner appeared like magic along the side of a street in my neighborhood. The dragonfly gets its name from its green thorax, the part of the insect’s body that's attached to the wings.

A years-in-the-making model developed by the National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey could offer a deeper look at mercury concentration levels on federal lands across the country — including ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was one of four parks in the eastern U.S. where the Dragonfly Mercury Project got its start. Easier to catch and cheaper to test than fish, dragonfly larvae can be ...

I have known about ringed boghaunter for more than 20 years, and I have yet to see one in the wild. I’ve looked, but, like the ghosts for which they are named, they are incredibly difficult to find. I ...

With 360-degree vision, bright-colored bodies that sparkle jewel-like in the sun, and acrobatic flight patterns reaching speeds of nearly 35 miles per hour, dragonflies are some of the more glamorous ...