Researchers have developed a model that can recreate, with only a few parameters, the wing patterns of a large group of insects, shedding light on how these complex patterns form. For many species of ...

A new study reports that a specific species of dragonfly may have an unusual tracheal system in their wings. This could us a fascinating insight into how insect wings evolved. The study was published ...

Scientists from Hiroshima University undertook a study of dragonfly wings in order to better understand the relationship between a corrugated wing structure and vortex motions. They discovered that ...

Bees and butterflies are the poster insects of our time, but another amazing garden creature enriches our world and gives a flash of color and life to the languid days of late summer. Dragonflies seem ...

The vast majority of living insects either have wings or evolved from flying ancestors, said Linz, an evolutionary biologist now at Indiana University. “When the average person thinks about an insect ...

When summer heats up, I like to find some shade by the water. That’s where I find one of my favorite insects, the dragonfly. They seem fearless, landing on my leg or shoulder. They zip around ...

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 ...

An ancient ancestor’s visual system helps dragonflies and jewel wing damselflies capture prey in very different ways. By Veronique Greenwood Jewel wing damselflies live up to their names: They dart ...

Harvard researchers have developed a computational model that can mimic, with only a few, simple parameters, the complex wing patterns of a large group of distantly-related insects, shedding light on ...