Dragonflies are ideal hunting machines. More than 80 percent of their brain is used for processing visual information, and it is believed that some species can see objects up to 30 feet away and ...

Though you might be annoyed at the profusion of wildlife the warmer weather brings to your garden (slugs, chafer grubs, and other ‘pests’ very much included), most of our lawns could benefit from more ...

Today, we celebrate the dragonfly, the theme bug of this Saturday's BugFest at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences' BugFest is Saturday. The free festival, now in ...

In a windowless room in northern Virginia, neuroscientist Anthony Leonardo is about to open a door. Quickly. "There are thousands of fruit flies in there, and we don't want them all to escape," he ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was one of four parks in the eastern U.S. where the Dragonfly Mercury Project got its start. Easier to catch and cheaper to test than fish, dragonfly larvae can be ...

Dragonflies do not have a stinger but may bite if they feel threatened. But they are not dangerous to humans. Dragonflies are colorful insects that make their presence known during the spring and ...

Figure 1: Parallel navigation and reactive control are insufficient to describe interception steering. We thus sought to determine whether dragonfly prey interception is dependent on internal models.

At lakes and other bodies of water, several species of dragonflies are feeding and breeding throughout the region, making a beautiful spectacle before migration begins. 1. Dragonflies evolved around ...