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 Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops. Engineers who designed the plane in the 1940s found a simple model that still ...

When summer heats up, I like to find some shade by the water. That’s where I find one of my favorite insects, the dragonfly. They seem fearless, landing on my leg or shoulder. They zip around ...

Emma Redman, a College of Idaho senior, wades into the Boise River to collect aquatic insects that will tell researchers about the food resources available to dragonflies. Anna Eichert Students and ...

A tandem pair of Common Green Darners (Anax junius) laying eggs. © Dennis Paulson. Find out more about Dragonfly Monitoring and other great citizen science projects ...

Swarms of dragonflies were first reported in northeastern Ohio, including Lorain, Cuyahoga, Erie, Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties earlier in the week. Sightings of dragonflies circling ...

I have a pond and there are a number of dragonflies on the plants around it. They often hover over the water dipping their tails into the water. Are they harmful? N.D. Tulsa These insects are not ...