A dragonfly garden can transform your yard into a peaceful but wild nature experience, an organic progression sought by some who have immersed themselves in gardening and the outdoors lately. Rolling ...
BELVILLE, N.C. (WECT) - Crews in Belville have dug out and filled a dragonfly pond at the Belville Riverfront Park that, when completed, will naturally control the mosquito population. The pond is ...
You may not be aware, but Aug. 20 is World Mosquito Day. It isn’t a day to celebrate mosquitoes. Instead, it marks the discovery, made in 1897 by the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross, that female ...
Mosquitoes will have a banner breeding season due to rain-filled bayous and ponds, but so will their mortal enemy - dragonflies. Mosquitoes hatch from eggs laid in water and begin life as larvae, ...
In one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists monitored East Texas dragonfly communities for years to show that simple mechanisms could be used to predict how biodiversity varies across time and ...
If you’ve ever watched a dragonfly zig and zag over a pond in search of dinner, you know how fast these gauzy-winged insects can move. In less than half the time it takes a human eye to blink, a ...