Among its fascinating attributes, the Common Green Darner has compound eyes containing more than 30,000 simple eyes. There have been swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in recent ...

A reader recently asked about a red dragonfly she saw in her yard. Astonished by the shimmering color, she wondered if it was unusual. Red dragonflies aren't unusual in our area, but they certainly ...

“It’s like an invasion!” a woman giggled as she lowered her head and launched her bike through a swarm of dragonflies on the lakefront trail. These large-eyed insects with nearly 4-inch wingspans flew ...

Commenting on the update to the IUCN red list and the news that 16% of dragonfly species are at risk of extinction, Stuart Orr, WWF Global Freshwater Lead, said: “Today’s announcement about the global ...

Among all of the world’s butterflies, monarchs stand out because of their amazing long-distance migrations each spring and fall. Any day now, we should start seeing southbound swarms of these iconic ...

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 ...

Today I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings: like ...

Naturalists Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, Jens Kipping and Nicolas Mézière scanned through swamps and streams in Africa and discovered 60 new species of dragonflies and damselflies in varied habitats.

The destruction of wetlands is driving a decline of dragonflies around the world, with one sixth of species of the magnificently colourful insects threatened with extinction, conservationists said on ...