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NEWS RELEASE ARBORETUM, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ************************* July is a great month to see an amazing selection of ...
As spring moves towards summer and temperatures start to rise, native insects begin to take flight. Perhaps none are as ...
Moving into summer, many birds are occupied with bringing up their young and become much less conspicuous, but for nature ...
In just the past five years, Great Smoky Mountains National Park has added five new species to its list of 101 resident members of the Odonata order, which includes 70 dragonflies as well as 31 ...
In just the past five years, Great Smoky Mountains National Park has added five new species to its list of 101 resident members of the Odonata order, which includes 70 dragonflies as well as 31 ...
Dragonflies belong to the scientific order Odonata, which means 'toothed one' in Greek, and refers to their serrated teeth. A single dragonfly can eat between 30 and 100 mosquitoes daily ...
I now knew that this yellow-and-black creature was a Gomphid, a genus of dragonfly. But many of the dozens of other Odonata, the general scientific name for dragonflies and damselflies ...
I’m talking about the dragonfly and damselfly. Both insects belong to the Odonata order, with damselflies grouped into three families and dragonflies into seven. One interesting theory about how ...
It fluoresces under an ultraviolot (UV) light.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) Brothers related that dragonflies and damselflies belong to the insect order Odonata. Adult dragonflies generally have ...
Sussex County is home to more identified Odonata species than any other county in the United States. The damselfly is similar to a dragonfly but with a smaller, slimmer body, wrote Alison Mitchell ...
Jackson is also the record reviewer for the Wisconsin Odonata Survey, which logs sightings and data on dragonflies statewide. The "very big, very obvious" green darner is widely seen in large ...