Researchers have developed a model that can recreate, with only a few parameters, the wing patterns of a large group of insects, shedding light on how these complex patterns form. For many species of ...

Living a few miles from General Mitchell International Airport, Patrick McSweeney of Bay View commonly sees airborne activity. But Monday and Tuesday evenings he witnessed a fleet in the sky that ...

“It’s like an invasion!” a woman giggled as she lowered her head and launched her bike through a swarm of dragonflies on the lakefront trail. These large-eyed insects with nearly 4-inch wingspans flew ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (October 11, 2006) – The delicate lady bug in your garden could be frighteningly large if only there was a greater concentration of oxygen in the air, a new study concludes. The ...

FARGO - Dragonfly-hatching season in North Dakota and northern Minnesota has commenced. It's nearly impossible in recent days to look up and not see a mob of the gigantic-eyed flying insects swarm the ...

I find it very interesting and fun watching our many dragonflies drop down to our ponds, drop their eggs and swoop back up again. Few people realize just how interesting dragonflies can be. Being one ...

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 ...

A handful of birds or large insects in a given volume of air can be just as “loud” to a radar as thousands of little water droplets in the same space. Dragonflies are much larger than raindrops, so it ...

When summer heats up, I like to find some shade by the water. That’s where I find one of my favorite insects, the dragonfly. They seem fearless, landing on my leg or shoulder. They zip around ...

The first time Algerian biologist Rassim Khelifa went out searching for dragonflies, he netted a species that had not been seen in a century — now he studies the diet of these flying predatory insects ...