Megalagrion pacificum is an endangered damselfly found on Maui. Evolving over 20 million years of isolation, these native damselflies and dragonflies are threatened by habitat loss and introduced ...

Rhinella spinulosa is a toad common in rivers, streams, and steppe wetlands where they face a variety of insect predators. Rhinella spinulosa tadpoles are known to be unpalatable to dragonfly naiads ...

Tadpoles grow pumped-up tails when stressed out by the threat of predators nearby, a new study finds. These beefed-up tails help the tadpoles escape predators such as dragonfly larvae, according to ...

The Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve provides a summer home for a small group of an endangered species of dragonflies born and raised in a biology lab in South Dakota. A team of ecologists with the ...

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 ...

Jason Hoverman’s research shows that predators can reduce infection prevalence in prey populations, and that some prey infected with a pathogen may be more susceptible to predators. The findings ...

With 360-degree vision, bright-colored bodies that sparkle jewel-like in the sun, and acrobatic flight patterns reaching speeds of nearly 35 miles per hour, dragonflies are some of the more glamorous ...

Dragonflies are in the Order Odonata. Odon is the Greek word for tooth. Dragonflies don't have true teeth but they do have extremely large, strong mandibles with sharply-pointed tooth-like serrations.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Survey data from New England showed that assemblages of Lestes damselflies are organized along the entire gradient of pond permanence and ...

Worried about the health of Oregon's frogs? Rogue Pundit, a Southern Oregon blogger, passes along a report that parallel studies in Oregon and England indicate predators may be responsible for one of ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rudolf Schilder, assistant professor of entomology at Penn State University, took some time to explain why Pennsylvania residents are seeing so many dragonflies this month. He studies ...

Tadpoles grow pumped-up tails when stressed out by the threat of predators nearby, a new study finds. These beefed-up tails help the tadpoles escape predators such as dragonfly larvae, according to ...