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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 ...

Summer means even more warmer weather and the potential increase in mosquito activity. Dragonflies to the rescue, experts say. Mosquito season begins in March or April and could go into October, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study has unveiled surprising findings about mercury pollution: where it comes from and how it moves through the environment vary significantly depending on the ecosystem. In drier regions, most ...

A common green darner appeared like magic along the side of a street in my neighborhood. The dragonfly gets its name from its green thorax, the part of the insect’s body that's attached to the wings.

AbstractWe experimentally tested for systematic biases in techniques commonly used to study behavior of larval aquatic insects. We determined whether larval Zygoptera responded to the presence of an ...