Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dragonfly finds a place to rest and escape the mid-day sun near Phinizy Swamp on Friday afternoon, June 10, 2011. Dragonflies ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andre Mueller was an undergraduate student at McGill University when he discovered the dragonfly fossil at an excavation site in ...

Dragonflies, often seen flitting gracefully above ponds and waterways, are not merely aesthetic wonders; they are crucial sentinels of our freshwater ecosystems. A recent assessment by a team of ...

Two elegant flying insects are similar enough that they’re confused for one another. I’m talking about the dragonfly and damselfly. Both insects belong to the Odonata order, with damselflies grouped ...

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 ...

Rising temperatures affect biodiversity, but scientists have long struggled to grasp the full scope — until now. A recent discovery by researchers at McGill University sheds new light on how early ...

WESTERLY, R.I. (WJAR) — A typical Saturday beach day turned on its head as beachgoers in Rhode Island were swarmed by tens of thousands of dragonflies. The swarm was captured on camera by WJAR viewers ...

WESTERLY, R.I. (WJAR) — It was the talk of the town. A typical Saturday beach day turned on its head as beachgoers at Misquamicut State Beach are swarmed by tens of thousands of dragonflies.