Mayflies don't bite and adults only live for a day, but you don't want to get stuck in a swarm. Here's what to know about the ...

Discover the fascinating life cycle of dragonflies, from their underwater nymph stage to becoming agile mosquito hunters.

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 ...

With a size that does not exceed two centimeters, the Dragon of Patagonia is born ... And, last February, an expedition went in search of the insect to the Uppsala Glacier.

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 ...