Among its fascinating attributes, the Common Green Darner has compound eyes containing more than 30,000 simple eyes. There have been swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in recent ...

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(WJW) – Social media is buzzing over a picture of a massive dragonfly posted to Facebook by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The eye-catching image shows what’s called a Swamp Darner resting on a ...

An intersection in Seattle s Green Lake neighborhood has a new look. Neighbors are pulling out their paint brushes and getting down to business painting a giant dragonfly at 4th Avenue NE and NE 60th ...

A common green darner appeared like magic along the side of a street in my neighborhood. The dragonfly gets its name from its green thorax, the part of the insect’s body that's attached to the wings.

Quick! What has large protruding eyes, is black with yellow spots along its spindly four-inch long body, has wings a half-foot long and can fly faster than 30 mph? And, oh yeah, it's one of nature's ...