I can even remember a few times when a dragonfly larva blessed the pond at my parents’ house. I’d watch them crawl out of the water and hatch out into adult dragonflies, leaving behind an ...

This seemed like a good idea to me until I realized how difficult it would be to find a larval dragonfly, that looks a lot like other dragonfly larvae ... boghaunter has photos to excitedly ...

Soon, net-touting volunteers visited water sources within dozens of National Parks to scoop up dragonfly larvae. The volunteers then sent the larvae to experts like Sarah Janssen, a scientist at ...

The phenomenon was observed by Rassim Khelifa, an entomologist who’s been studying dragonflies for a decade, while he was collecting dragonfly larvae in the Swiss Alps. His findings were ...

Just the mere presence of a predator can stress out dragonfly larvae enough to kill them — even if the dragonflies are out of the predator's reach and completely safe, a new study shows.

But tell that to the Hine’s emerald dragonfly. The larvae of this rare bug — the only dragonfly in the United States to be listed as an endangered species — grow up in crayfish ...

And it's not just the full-grown ones contributing—dragonfly larvae typically consume the most mosquitoes. Now, in order to use this secret weapon that mother nature has provided, you have to ...

A six-legged larvae that can slurp up fish and fully grown bullfrogs was found at a Montana national park, officials say.

Dragonfly larvae samples were collected as part of the Dragonfly Mercury Project. Many national parks and other protected places, including national forests, wildlife refuges, and tribal lands ...

Public participants help collect dragonfly larvae and record field data. Park staff work to engage students, conservation corps, interns, and others in this hands-on research experience.

These beefed-up tails help the tadpoles escape predators such as dragonfly larvae, according to research published March 5 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The chemical signal ...