Discover how dragonflies and damselflies mate, transform through their life cycle, and why bluet species are unique, with ...

Flies make Odonata, at 6,300, small by comparison. There are only 172 species in Ontario. Ontario Odonata can be grouped by what I call the 369 method, with three families of damselflies and six ...

Dragonflies are also faster, and are like bombers zooming through the air, says Keating. "They can actually travel as fast as 50 kilometres an hour, whereas damselflies flit about almost like a ...

Damselflies, as the name might suggest, are generally smaller, more slender, and appear more delicate in flight than their stout-bodied cousins, the dragonflies.

There are some 200 dragonflies and damselflies in Ontario compared to nearly 500 birds. A typical area has about 100 species. “That’s not a huge number to learn,” Runtz says.

Nearly a fifth of the world ’s dragonflies and damselflies are at risk of extinction, a nature conservation group has found. The destruction of wetland habitats is driving the decline; for ...

A close relative of the dragonfly, a damselfly, just emerged from the water, beginning its new life. Columnist Margaret Carney says "dragonflies and damselflies are among the wonders of summer, many ...

Nearly half of the 130 known species of dragonflies and damselflies in Sri Lanka are found nowhere else on Earth. The highest endemic species density is found in the island’s central highlands ...

There are 87 species of dragonflies and damselflies in B.C., ranging in a myriad of colours from iridescent metallic green to majestic blue to stunning crimson ...

Work at Crowdy Marsh involved re-wetting the landscape, enabling the return of moisture-loving species such as sphagnum ...

Out of 6,016 species of dragonflies and damselflies, 16 per cent are at risk of extinction, according to Ducks Unlimited, which says wetland habitat loss is the leading cause of their decline.