Social media is buzzing over a picture of a massive dragonfly posted to Facebook by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Dragonflies seem to be everywhere along Chicago’s lakefront. Here’s why. Millions of common green darner dragonflies are migrating across Lake Michigan on their journey from Canada to the Gulf ...

Swarms of the Common Green Darner dragonfly will be visible this month near Lake Michigan as they migrate more than 900 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. John Abbott. Environment & Public Health.

News; Sci/Tech; Cool critters: Official state insect of Washington is a ‘mosquito hawk’ Sun., Sept. 1, 2024 This green darner dragonfly, seen near the Palouse River in Colfax on Aug. 14, may ...

Among its fascinating attributes, the Common Green Darner has compound eyes containing more than 30,000 simple eyes. There have been swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in ...

A photographer wades shin-deep in a pond to capture this image of a male blue-eyed darner dragonfly stretching out his abdomen during a break in his patrols. Skip to content. Local News.

The bugs, identified as Common Green Darner dragonflies, travel across North America during summer to mate, traversing rivers, ponds, and other bodies of water at speeds of up to 18 mph.

Dragonflies are swarming the lakefront this month as they head south to Mexico and the Gulf Coast, ... The common green darner is among the most widely observed dragonfly species in Wisconsin.

Jackson is also the record reviewer for the Wisconsin Odonata Survey, which logs sightings and data on dragonflies statewide. The "very big, very obvious" green darner is widely seen in large ...