A festival celebrating dragonflies is under way as visitors are encouraged to spot the insects.

Dragonflies are really useful to have in your yard, and if you want to attract them, there's a gorgeous pink-blooming plant ...

Migration flights of dragonflies and damselflies crisscross much of our planet, new research reveals. Scientists from the universities of Exeter and Lund reviewed global evidence and found 100 ...

Dragonflies are renowned for their remarkable flying abilities. Male dragonflies often compete for territory and mating ...

Beachgoers in Westerly, Rhode Island, were subject to a scene that looked straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”: Thousands of dragonflies descended on the beach, flying in from the water and ...

Most dragonflies scatter their eggs carelessly across the water's surface, leaving them vulnerable to predators and currents. The tiger spiketail dragonfly takes a wildly different approach, one that ...

While dragonflies don't eat plants, the ones you choose can help create the habitat they need by providing perching spots, ...

Many dragonflies zip through the air with their translucent wings painted in an array of dark spots and bands. But — for males at least — those dapper decorations could soon fall out of style as a ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A global assessment of more than 6,000 dragonfly and damselfly species shows that 16% are at risk of extinction. The main threats to these insects ...