Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide election to declare an insect that best represented Alaska. Their school’s ...

LANSING, Mich. — Move over monarch butterfly; a large and fast-moving dragonfly is also vying for designation as Michigan’s official state insect. A bill introduced this week in Lansing would ...

The Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops. Engineers who designed the plane in the 1940s found a simple model that still ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rudolf Schilder, assistant professor of entomology at Penn State University, took some time to explain why Pennsylvania residents are seeing so many dragonflies this month. He studies ...

RIGHT HERE IN MILWAUKEE. SWARMS OF DRAGONFLIES. IT’S JUST A SWARM OF THEM. IT’S JUST LIKE, OH, AND I JUST WANT TO GET AWAY AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. TAKING OVER MILWAUKEE’S SOUTH SHORE PARK. I DO GET A ...

A formidable mosquito hunter with tiger-striped wings has been named Australia's top insect for 2025. The graphic flutterer dragonfly (Rhyothemis graphiptera) captured more than a quarter of all votes ...