Thanks to the fourth- graders at Beatty Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada has the beautiful Vivid Dancer Damselfly as its official state insect, not the ugly “mosquito” or “barfly” that state ...

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons made a lot of fourth-graders happy today when he signed into law a bill making the vivid dancer damselfly Nevada’s official state insect. The effort to make the blue and ...

This little insect looks very similar to a dragonfly, but it isn't. It is a damselfly. There are many different kinds and colors of damselflies in the world. Most of them are much smaller than ...

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 ...