Quick Take New data shows that 80% of samples across 30 refuges revealed high mercury levels. A 5-year underwater larval cycle can reveal high mercury detection in wildlife refuges. More than 1,000 ...

Ryan Utz says his recent paper on dragonflies, published in the journal American Midland Naturalist, came about as a result of a happy accident. “We turned up some data that we weren’t intending to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During late spring and early summer, dragonflies transform from water-dwelling larvae to the insects we see in the air. Last summer, a swarm of dragonflies descended on beachgoers at Misquamicut Beach ...

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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 ...