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 ...

The dragonfly’s evolutionary advantages are keen eyesight, maneuverability and speed — they fly between 25 and 35 miles per hour. Their large, keen eyes are like wide-angle lenses, producing a broad ...

Living a few miles from General Mitchell International Airport, Patrick McSweeney of Bay View commonly sees airborne activity. But Monday and Tuesday evenings he witnessed a fleet in the sky that ...

Researchers have developed a model that can recreate, with only a few parameters, the wing patterns of a large group of insects, shedding light on how these complex patterns form. For many species of ...

Last summer, a swarm of dragonflies descended on beachgoers at Misquamicut Beach in Rhode Island, causing some to flee the “apocalyptic” scene. The insects were seen at other beaches, too, like Bakers ...

Researchers have discovered which species adult dragonflies and damselflies prey upon, as modern laboratory techniques have enabled the study of the insects' diet. In the study, prey DNA was extracted ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The consistent rain in July brought back a familiar summertime pest: mosquitoes. But it also spawned swarms of a helpful insect to control them. Pesky mosquitoes and flies are ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rudolf Schilder, assistant professor of entomology at Penn State University, took some time to explain why Pennsylvania residents are seeing so many dragonflies this month. He studies ...

BUTTE CREEK CANYON — Growing up, Roger Lederer was told damselflies could bring good fortune when fishing. “Whenever I went fishing and a damselfly landed on my rod, it was called a lucky bug. So I ...