The large, floating leaves offer a perfect resting spot for adult dragonflies, while the flowers add a pop of color to your water garden. To grow water lilies, plant them in containers filled with ...

A garden with a diversity of plants will serve that need quite well because the flowers will attract a variety of tiny insects on which the dragonflies can feed. A benefit to gardening for ...

Dragonflies rank among Earth’s earliest winged insects. Fossils of supersized ancestors show they existed more than 300 ...

The bonus is that dragonflies love it, and will flock to the tall purple stems, where they can intercept the mosquitoes before they bite you! Black-eyed Susans are another flower that attracts ...

But how do they know which flowers to go to? Honeybees ... This is the case with some species of dragonflies, meaning they are able to see infinitely more colors than the human brain can comprehend.

Lately, you may have noticed an influx of dragonflies. Just like the flowers at McKennan Park, dragonflies are part of nature and do no harm. “They’re just a really important part of our ...