Summer means even more warmer weather and the potential increase in mosquito activity. Dragonflies to the rescue, experts say. Mosquito season begins in March or April and could go into October, ...

Infrared-spectrum image of an ornamented dragonfly from the genus Tramea. Lighter colors indicate hotter temperatures, ranging from 27 to 35 degrees Celsius across the image. Image: Noah Leith.

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 ...

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 ...

Bird, butterfly and dragonfly numbers soar at flagship rewilding project - A 20-year ecological review at Knepp Estate in ...

Emerald green with slashes of blue, the green darner dragonfly is among the biggest and fastest of the dragonfly species in North America. You’ve probably seen them darting around bodies of water in ...

Brookfield Zoo joined the Lincoln Park Zoo and Shedd Aquarium in raising a total of 90 mudbugs, which were recently released in the DuPage County Forest Preserve District. The mudbugs create burrows ...

Move over, ladybugs. Delaware now has a state dragonfly: the blue dasher. The state Dragonfly Project, launched by Sen. Stephanie Hansen, D-Middletown, in March, asked students and teachers to learn ...

You may not be aware, but Aug. 20 is World Mosquito Day. It isn’t a day to celebrate mosquitoes. Instead, it marks the discovery, made in 1897 by the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross, that female ...

“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 ...