"Gomphid!" someone shouted, and the little thing with the gleaming fuselage hovered, then sped away. I was standing on the whitish gypsum-rich hardpan that passes for soil in the desert about 15 miles ...

Molecular phylogenetics of Odonata employs DNA sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among dragonflies and damselflies. Beginning with mitochondrial markers such as cytochrome ...

Introduction : Dragonflies as forest-dependent animals / Adolfo Cordero Rivera -- Forests as habitats for dragonflies (Odonata) / P.S. Corbet -- Allochthonous organic matter as a food resource for ...

"Damsels and Dragons" might sound like the latest TV show based on a fantasy novel, but it's really a presentation focusing on the health of our environment. Dan Jackson, president of the Wisconsin ...

The world over as the threat of depleting wetlands loom large, it has had a cascading effect on one of the most enigmatic species of the insect world – the dragonflies and damselflies. Scientific ...

Mangaluru: A three-day Odonata workshop hosted by Sammilan Shetty's Butterfly Park in Belvai has documented over 50 species of dragonflies and damselflies, including several that are endemic and ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s time to spot dragonflies in your backyard. WWF India, Kerala, in association with the Society for Odonate Studies (SOS) and state level-digital partner of the dragonfly fest ...

As part of the Dragonfly Festival, field surveys are underway at Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake to document the dragonflies and damselflies in the city. Six to eight surveys are conducted between ...

Six new species of dragonflies and damselflies have arrived in Britain since the late 1990s, while a seventh has returned after being wiped out in the 1950s, according to research carried out for the ...

Nearly half of the 130 known species of dragonflies and damselflies in Sri Lanka are found nowhere else on Earth. The highest endemic species density is found in the island’s central highlands, ...