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.

Darner dragonflies can usually be seen flying around bodies of water such as lakes or ponds. How to Catch. The Darner Dragonfly can be found flying anywhere throughout your town.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Adult common green darner dragonflies were captured in spring in Wisconsin and analyzed for hydrogen isotopes. The analysis revealed the insects had been hatched in Mexico, about 1,500 miles south ...

Dragonflies feed mostly on insects like mosquitos and midges, relying on a swiveling head and huge eyes to catch their prey. Some species breed in July and August including the common green darner ...

If you've walked along the Milwaukee lakefront in the past few weeks, you might have suddenly found yourself amid a swarm of dragonflies. The insects are making their yearly migration south, which ...