Long before birds ruled the skies, the dragonfly evolved a hunting strategy so effective that it still outperforms most predators today.
Today, we celebrate the dragonfly, the theme bug of this Saturday's BugFest at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences' BugFest is Saturday. The free festival, now in ...
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Dragonflies have mastered flight engineering that no machine has matched, here is how
The number that stops engineers cold 95% prey-capture success rate. That is what researchers at Harvard's Concord Field Station recorded when they filmed dragonflies hunting in slow motion. Cheetahs ...
Dragonflies are renowned for their remarkable flying abilities. Male dragonflies often compete for territory and mating ...
This month we have our questions answered by Jeff Fischer, president of the Minnesota Dragonfly Society. Jeff is also a University of Minnesota Extension Service Master Naturalist, a Wisconsin Master ...
July, the month of butterflies, follows June, the month of dragonflies. But many of these predators are also flying now.
Dragonflies are not just a beautiful insect, they are also a fierce predator of the pesky mosquito. As a kid, Sam Kieschnick, an urban wildlife biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, was nicknamed ...
The ancient advantages of an insect whose ancestors predated the dinosaurs are inspiring advances in sensor and flight ...
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