As spring moves towards summer and temperatures start to rise, native insects begin to take flight. Perhaps none are as ...

Duns are one of the prettiest bugs that exist in our local rivers. World-renowned fly tyer AK Best calls it the “glamour ...

As summer heats up, we begin seeing more insects. Some are pesky, such as mosquitoes and flies. Some are beautiful and beneficial such as butterflies.

Located in the middle of our river valley is the town of Avon. In the center of the town is Nottingham Lake, a manicured ...

How I got addicted to expensive fly rods and learned to love the streams of urban Dallas.

Even while you are paddling, there is a decent chance a dragonfly or damselfly will stop by to take a rest and visit. They do ...

Dragonflies rank among Earth’s earliest winged insects. Fossils of supersized ancestors show they existed more than 300 ...

Dragonfly expert Jessica Ware is on a mission to understand the evolutionary history of dragonflies ... the hatchlings, called nymphs, emerge looking nothing like their parents and begin their ...

Whether dragonfly or damselfly, nymph or adult, the insects are voracious ... dragonflies can hover in place for up to a minute, fly backwards at 3 body-lengths per second and fly forward at ...

The life cycle of Damsel and Dragonflies is simpler than most insects. From an egg, one of many, laid just below the water surface, the egg hatches into the larval phase, a nymph called a naiad which ...

They are expert fliers, with the ability to hover, and fly backwards as ... food that the dragonfly nymphs can live on. Damselflies are less conspicuous than dragonflies. They are smaller and ...

Nymphs (technically naiads ... They owe much of their success as hunters to their speed, maneuverability (they can fly backwards) and amazing eyesight: Dragonflies have two large compound eyes ...