Measuring three-fourths of an inch long, with a wingspan of less than 1 1/2 inches, the bluebell is the continent’s smallest dragonfly. Colored black and yellow, its body becomes blue as the ...

I will never forget the small blue dragonfly that landed on my back patio one day where my beloved cat, Coco, was resting a few summers back. She talked to that dragonfly for what seemed to be ...

Dragonflies are teaching researchers and students about Boise’s ecosystem and unlocking the larger mysteries of the insects’ ...

Green darner: The common, huge green or blue dragonfly most often seen in heavy numbers during late summer and fall, the green darner is known as one of our few migrating insects. Large hatches ...

Blue pigment, rare in nature, is nowhere on these wings. Instead, the wings, perhaps powered by abundant oxygen, create a living layer cake of light-manipulating doodads.