I have a pond and there are a number of dragonflies on the plants around it. They often hover over the water dipping their tails into the water. Are they harmful? N.D. Tulsa These insects are not ...

Join the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership to learn about dragonfly migration and contribute to vital citizen science projects. “I'm an aquatic entomologist, and dragonflies and damselflies are the most ...

LANSING, Mich. — Move over monarch butterfly; a large and fast-moving dragonfly is also vying for designation as Michigan’s official state insect. A bill introduced this week in Lansing would ...

A formidable mosquito hunter with tiger-striped wings has been named Australia's top insect for 2025.The graphic flutterer ...

When summer heats up, I like to find some shade by the water. That’s where I find one of my favorite insects, the dragonfly. They seem fearless, landing on my leg or shoulder. They zip around ...

“In urban waterways like ponds and creeks, the shallow water warms more quickly at the end of winter, which speeds up ...

The Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops. Engineers who designed the plane in the 1940s found a simple model that still ...

Extra oxygen explains why Stan Wood, a sharp-eyed commercial fossil-hunter from Scotland, did so well out of a dilapidated old limestone farm wall that he spotted next to a school football field in ...

We ignore most insects that cross our path. We swat away flies, marvel at butterflies, and dash away from angry wasps. But one insect that has been around for about 300 million years is one of ...

Battalions of insect cyborgs - stealthier than any man-made mini-drone - could soon hit the skies to join the fight against terrorism. Draper, along with Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Janelia ...

The sound Chloe Hansson heard during her radiation treatments for breast cancer resembled buzzing dragonflies. She imagined the large-winged insects flying off with her cancer cells, according to her ...

Operation DragonflEye is a go. The program that set out to create a cyborg dragonfly has successful strapped a tiny backpack fitted with electronics, sensors and a solar cell to a live insect – and it ...