Of the 5,500 dragonfly and damselfly species known on Earth, 76 make their home in Washington. Dragonflies are divided into groups named for their hunting methods or bodily characteristics: emeralds, ...

Dragonflies are ancient predators, helpful for humans. They eat mosquitoes and flies. Dragonfly nymphs live in water before becoming adults. They thrive near water bodies. Males guard territories to ...

There’s something magical about dragonflies. Whether it’s their many-lensed eyes, their captivating flight or their dramatic emergence into a majestic adult form, the insects have grabbed humans’ ...

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 ...

With dragonfly season around the corner, Norfolk's county dragonfly recorder, Dr Pam Taylor, has educated us with 22 weird and wonderful facts about the impressive insects. 1) The earliest fossil ...

Dragonflies were one of the first insects to inhabit this planet, arriving on the scene around 300 million years ago. They've had many millennia to perfect the art of hunting, flying, and living an ...

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 ...