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 ...

Flying dragons are having a moment. Between serving as instruments of revenge in the “Game of Thrones” TV series and sentient expressions of romance in author Rebecca Yarros’s “Fourth Wing” novels, ...

Three hundred million years ago, the largest insect ever known to humankind hunted in fern jungles and boasted an enormous wingspan of nearly 2.5 feet. Different from modern dragonflies in its size ...

During late spring and early summer, dragonflies transform from water-dwelling larvae to the insects we see in the air. Last summer, a swarm of dragonflies descended on beachgoers at Misquamicut Beach ...

Dragonflies are hard to miss. Big, fast, and buzzing over trout streams like little helicopters, they’re the opposite of subtle. If a trout can pick out a size 22 mayfly, it certainly isn’t blind to a ...

Dragonflies are effective predators of mosquitoes, consuming them in both their larval and adult stages. They are beneficial to ecosystems as bioindicators and pollination assistants. Creating ...