Her obsession with dragonflies began with the Marshall fire that destroyed her home in 2021. Sarah Nalley, who did her undergraduate work in evolutionary biology, already planned to dedicate her ...

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 ...

Eastern Amberwings (Perithemis tenera) look rather like brightly colored wasps busying themselves along the muddy edges of lakes and ponds. While perched, they even act like wasps, fluttering their ...

This week, we’re diving into the nitty-gritty of the life histories of dragonflies and damselflies (members of the taxonomic order Odonata) with a photo that perfectly conveys the mating process used ...

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’ ...