WASHINGTON (CN) – The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service has designated nearly 27,000 acres of habitat critical to the survival of the Hines emerald dragonfly which was listed as “endangered” under the ...

8 surprising facts about dragonflies 1. Dragonflies are ancient insects Dragonflies have been around for over 300 million years, making them one of the oldest species on Earth.

There are about 6,000 different species of dragonflies across Earth and about 16% of those are now imperiled as wetlands vanish at increasingly alarming rates, according to the report. The Hine’s ...

A dragonfly so scarce it is often only seen a couple of times per year was found along Lake Michigan in Oceana County. Why it's there is a mystery.

Nearly a fifth of dragonflies, insects that play a role in managing diseases by gobbling mosquito larvae, are at threat of extinction due to habitat destruction, the latest Red List of Threatened ...

Telge Road detention basin doubles as dragonfly habitat By Chevall Pryce , Staff writer Sep 20, 2019 Stephen Benigno, environmental quality section leader, instructs voluteers on planting within ...

The Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve provides a summer home for a small group of an endangered species of dragonflies born and raised in a biology lab in South Dakota. A team of ecologists with ...

The black-tailed skimmer dragonfly was spotted by volunteers at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve in the west of the city last week ...

There have been swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in recent weeks. Not only do dragonflies gravitate to our great lake, they depend on local ponds and streams too.

But when dragonflies start disappearing, it also shows that streams and ponds are going dry or polluted with toxins. “Dragonflies are very sensitive, most of them require an absolute pristine habitat ...