This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The mating ritual of the moorland hawker dragonfly—common around the ponds and wetlands of Europe, Asia, and North ...

If you’ve ever watched a dragonfly zig and zag over a pond in search of dinner, you know how fast these gauzy-winged insects can move. In less than half the time it takes a human eye to blink, a ...

Two elegant flying insects are similar enough that they’re confused for one another. I’m talking about the dragonfly and damselfly. Both insects belong to the Odonata order, with damselflies grouped ...