Megalagrion pacificum is an endangered damselfly found on Maui. Evolving over 20 million years of isolation, these native damselflies and dragonflies are threatened by habitat loss and introduced ...
Rustic tiny homes hold a certain appeal for those who want to experience the beauty of country life. With tiny mobile living transitioning from novelty to commonplace over the last few years, it is ...
With captive rearing techniques improving over time, scientists estimate they’ve released nearly 4,500 damselflies near Dillingham Airfield. A damselfly, the smaller relative of the dragonfly, was ...
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - In a race against the “extinction clock,” scientists are reintroducing native damselflies into the wild on Oahu’s North Shore. A small platoon of biologists have ...
The vivid dancer damselfly is a blue insect with transparent wings that "appear silver when rapidly beating in the sunlight." A bug with the Nevada colors of silver and blue might seem like a natural ...
Perched on the edge of a leaf, this damselfly takes a moment to gather his thoughts. The fly becomes beautifully animated in this humorous pose as he scratches his head and the concentration can be ...
Thanks to the fourth- graders at Beatty Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada has the beautiful Vivid Dancer Damselfly as its official state insect, not the ugly “mosquito” or “barfly” that state ...
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 ...
For over 20 years, a research team has studied the common bluetail damselfly. Females occur in three different color forms -- one with a male-like appearance, something that protects them from mating ...
This little damselfly thought it was cleverly hiding behind a blade of grass at a British lake, but didn’t realise its big bug eyes gave away its disguise. The tiny insect concealed its two-inch body ...