While the mosquito might be an obvious choice, dragonflies can stop on a dime at 35 miles an hour and even fly backward.

Volker Theurich / 500px / Getty Images. Dragonflies are flat-out terrifying if you're a gnat, mosquito, or other small bug. They don't simply chase down their prey; they snag them from the air ...

Blue Spirit Aero's insect-like hydrogen-powered Dragonfly is making its first appearance on the ground at the Paris air show, and the French start-up hopes that the aircraft will participate in flying ...

The Delaware state bug is the ladybug. The state butterfly is the tiger swallowtail. The state bird, of course, is the blue hen. Delaware doesn't have a state dragonfly, but that's about to change.