Rochester Institute of Technology photography professor Steve Diehl and his wife, Vici, both RIT alumni, are working with the New York Natural Heritage Program to help identify and document 190-plus ...

"Gomphid!" someone shouted, and the little thing with the gleaming fuselage hovered, then sped away. I was standing on the whitish gypsum-rich hardpan that passes for soil in the desert about 15 miles ...

How many insects can boast their own international organization? That is the case for dragonflies and damselflies, both members of the order Odonata (meaning “toothed” — the dragonfly has serrated ...

If you’re near a pond, stream, or marsh on a warm day, you may notice quick-flying insects skimming across the water or swooping and darting through the air. When they alight, you may be dazzled by ...

Researchers used transcriptomics (a type of gene sequencing) calibrated using information from the fossil record to create the first phylogenetic reconstruction of the insect order Odonata ...

Preface -- Authors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Chapter 2 History of Oklahoma Odonatology -- The First Era of OU Collecting Expeditions (1925-1928) -- The Second Era ...

Dragonflies belong to the order Odonata, characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong, transparent wings, and an elongated body. Those huge eyes give them incredible vision in almost ...

If you’re near a pond, stream, or marsh on a warm day, you may notice quick-flying insects skimming across the water or swooping and darting through the air. When they alight, you may be dazzled by ...

The Wisconsin Dragonfly Society is a statewide organization that aims to educate people on the aquatic nature of dragonflies, by assisting in citizen science activities involving the insects, ...

The Ohio Dragonfly Survey, which began in 2017, is in its third and final season of field work, and mountains of records have been contributed by scores of volunteers. More than 43,000 individual ...

Tsukuba, Japan – Many people hate insects, but the iridescent colors and elegant flying style of dragonflies and damselflies have made them firm favorites worldwide. They have been around in some form ...