My favorite summer habitats in southeastern Pennsylvania are partly overgrown, tall-grass and shrub meadows with either streams or ponds in them. I favor them because they are wildlife habitats and ...

If you’re near a pond, stream, or marsh on a warm day, you may notice quick-flying insects skimming across the water or swooping and darting through the air. When they alight, you may be dazzled by ...

I like this haiku by Jacqui Thewless. It brings to mind the thick, humid air hanging over a reed-choked drainage ditch in mid-July. And hovering above, a damselfly searching, always searching, for the ...

If you’re near a pond, stream, or marsh on a warm day, you may notice quick-flying insects skimming across the water or swooping and darting through the air. When they alight, you may be dazzled by ...

BUTTE CREEK CANYON — Growing up, Roger Lederer was told damselflies could bring good fortune when fishing. “Whenever I went fishing and a damselfly landed on my rod, it was called a lucky bug. So I ...

At this time in August there are insects everywhere outside. But most, although certainly not all, of them get ignored because people generally don’t like insects. There are some, however, that people ...

NORTH SMITHFIELD – Booth Pond and the land surrounding the small, out-of-the-way body of water could have been swallowed up by urban sprawl or simply abandoned. But land trust volunteers, ...

This week, we’re diving into the nitty-gritty of the life histories of dragonflies and damselflies (members of the taxonomic order Odonata) with a photo that perfectly conveys the mating process used ...

As summer heats up, we begin seeing more insects. Some are pesky, such as mosquitoes and flies. Some are beautiful and beneficial such as butterflies. Among the beautiful and beneficial insects are ...

Dragonflies and damselflies may look alike, but these expert hunters have distinct strategies. Dragonflies and damselflies may look alike, but these expert hunters have distinct strategies.