The pretty little dragonfly that swoops and flits around while you are walking the Presque Isle State Park lagoon shoreline has been the subject of intrigue on every continent where it's found.

Emma Redman, a College of Idaho senior, wades into the Boise River to collect aquatic insects that will tell researchers about the food resources available to dragonflies. Anna Eichert Students and ...

If you've walked along the Milwaukee lakefront in the past few weeks, you might have suddenly found yourself amid a swarm of dragonflies. The insects are making their yearly migration south, which ...

Do dragonflies eat mosquitoes? Learn how to attract dragonflies to your yard without a pond or by creating a garden pond for naiads to grow. In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Kenny ...

One of the benefits of writing this column is that readers let me know when they observe unusual, unpredictable natural phenomena. For instance, when a brood of 17-year periodic cicadas emerges, I ...

Dragonflies are beautiful and beneficial. They are called “dragon” because of their fierce jaws that they use to catch prey. They feed on insects like gnats, mosquitoes, midges, butterflies and moths.

Her obsession with dragonflies began with the Marshall fire that destroyed her home in 2021. Sarah Nalley, who did her undergraduate work in evolutionary biology, already planned to dedicate her ...

Though dragonflies may appear delicate, they are complex, ancient predators with fascinating characteristics. Despite the myths that portray them as large, scary bugs or even aggressive towards humans ...

The National Weather Service office in Wakefield, Virginia, tweeted radar imagery on Monday that showed strange, cloud-like masses over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. Bit of a radar conundrum ...

A person's dreams say a lot about their subconscious thoughts, and when you dream about a dragonfly there's something symbolic and spiritual to it. The dragonfly is special and dreams that you ...

On a pond shore at a wildlife refuge in southeast Boise, beside the Idaho Shakespeare Festival grounds, recent Timberline High School graduate Ben Gallafent snagged the catch of the day. Researchers ...