Megalagrion pacificum is an endangered damselfly found on Maui. Evolving over 20 million years of isolation, these native damselflies and dragonflies are threatened by habitat loss and introduced ...

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 ...

Most damselflies prefer sunny spots, but the quirky San Francisco forktail damselfly digs the fogginess of its hometown. When they hook up, they do it in style – linking their delicate bodies in a ...

I like this haiku by Jacqui Thewless. It brings to mind the thick, humid air hanging over a reed-choked drainage ditch in mid-July. And hovering above, a damselfly searching, always searching, for the ...

Order Odonata, with 5,000 species, 450 of those found in North America. Common names: All kinds, including snake doctor, darning needle, green-eyed skimmers, jagged-edge saddlebag, mosquito hawk and ...

I recently wrote about a terrifying spectacle — an extinct eagle large enough to carry off a person. Scary to be sure, but what if dragonflies got as large as an eagle with a 12-foot wingspan? How ...

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