• Species in this region live about 48 weeks as larvae, dwelling the bottom of ponds and lakes, eating anything from mosquito larvae to tadpoles to small fish. • They emerge as adults for about two ...

Europe's first dragonfly centre has opened on the Wicken Fen with 21 species of the winged beast calling Cambridgeshire their home. We identify a few you can look out for. The BBC is not responsible ...

Dragonflies are hard to miss. Big, fast, and buzzing over trout streams like little helicopters, they’re the opposite of subtle. If a trout can pick out a size 22 mayfly, it certainly isn’t blind to a ...

Wildlife biologist Sandra von Arb will present a one-hour program titled “Flying Jewels of the Marsh: An Introduction to Dragonflies” Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, 569 ...

Dragonflies are ideal hunting machines. More than 80 percent of their brain is used for processing visual information, and it is believed that some species can see objects up to 30 feet away and ...

Dragonflies are already known to be swift hunters, but new research shows that they aren't turning and diving in reaction to their prey's movements — they're predicting those movements before they ...