Glen Ellyn-based writer Cindy Crosby led a convocation on the insects Monday at Crispin Hall, hoping that attendees were ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

While fascinating to look at and symbolic in many cultures, Spalding said, few people understand the importance of the various dragonfly species in the aquatic and land ecosystems in the Midwest, ...

The Delaware state bug is the ladybug. The state butterfly is the tiger swallowtail. The state bird, of course, is the blue hen. Delaware doesn't have a state dragonfly, but that's about to change.

Following years of unnecessary delays, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Hine's emerald dragonfly as an endangered species in 1995 — making it the only dragonfly on the entire endangered ...

and Missouri are home to the Hine's emerald dragonfly today. Historically, this species was known to exist in Ohio and Indiana, and one specimen was even collected in Alabama. The dragonfly is ...